Well, Janie, you are completely correct and I do understand that these fathers ain't got a lot of resources and most themselves are livin' in poverty...

I should have made that point...

But with that said, I also think that Welfare Reform places way too much ***blame*** on women... Yeah, I know that one can't really blame victims but that seems to be the crux of Welfare Reform... It's like *** pilin' on*** folks who never had the boots, let alone the bootstraps, with which to pull themselves up...

But I agree that one can't get blood from a turnip...

BTW, what are you seein' in yer area with child care??? 'Round here, and there was just a nice piece in the Post on it, the timebomb factor has kicked in big time and lots of moms can not longer afford to work anymore and the state, with it's budgetary woes, isn't able to pick up the slack... But then again, Virginia isn't big on taxes and is more hung up on building new roads and not kicking more $$$ into child care... I know that N.C. has the 7% sales tax and I believe higher income taxes than Virginia so maybe you all have more resources to cover the Bush administrations failures to keep up...

Bobert