Make The Daddies Pay
But what about the dads? It’s almost as if all these unfortunate conceptions were immaculate. The fathers, in most (66 percent of all out-of-wedlock) cases, are never identified. And, if identified, they are almost never forced to be responsible for their acts. Only 18 percent pay child support. This is a remarkable scandal. “Anything we expect of the mothers,” says David Ellwood, a noted welfare-reform expert now working in the Clinton administration, “we have to be able to expect from the fathers....