But the birthrate wouldn't have been so high if the powers that be had not driven fathers from the home so that women could get enough welfare to set up an apartment and live without a man as long as she had one baby after another. The "extras" that fell outside her economic critical mass formula for optimum government support got aborted. Sort of like plowing the remains of last year's crop under to fertilize the field after the main harvest is done.
“But the birthrate wouldn’t have been so high if the powers that be had not driven fathers from the home so that women could get enough welfare to set up an apartment and live without a man as long as she had one baby after another.”
I think a number of urban women no longer see living in gubmint housing as a worthwhile goal; their families have shrink considerably since welfare reform. On the other hand, suburban and rural women have learned the system, and are moving onto it in droves.