School Shooting in South Florida

[numberwang]

sundin13 said:

numberwang said:

Paying mother to be single increased single motherhood in the past, the rise of the welfare state mirrored (caused?) the rise of dysfunctional families.  Reverse that and give money only if the parents come back together, exceptions only for criminal fathers.

Do you have any evidence that these links were causal?

Further, I struggle to believe that such a change would aid in the creation of healthy relationships. If the only reason parents get back together is for the tax breaks, that probably isn't a healthy family.

It is certainly Granger-causal, the strongest from of causality that can be empirically tested, as the 'war on poverty' preceded the degeneration of society. There was a time when things were different.

 

Did the 'war on poverty' cause poverty?

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