I see your point Amos, and it looks to me like maybe I should re-iterate my stand to you. What your'e basically saying is that there are poor people who can't afford to feed their children because they don't make enough money. Fair enough. However, after separating those who 'fell on hard times', and I realize this happens, we are left with those who are just lazy and would rather collect welfare and other handouts courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer. And they number in the millions, dont kid yourself. Those are the ones I have been talking about from the beginning ( other members are happier labelling me a 'monster' who doesn't care about poor people, and that is simply not the case. I grew up watching my father work 2 jobs for years so we could have a decent life. We barely got by, and I never knew what it was like to be 'spoiled', like so many of you think. Ive been working since I was 11 years old, so that I could have a few of the things so many of my friends enjoyed. This isn't meant to be a 'sob story' by any means, but be aware that I know what its like to just get by and it was only by hard work and sacrifice. And I see so many people sitting at home collecting welfare and scamming the system it makes me sick, when there are plenty of jobs available if one is willing to work for 8 or 9 dollars per hour.   Youre probably not going to like this, but I think people who cannot support their children shouldn't have them until they are able to. (not including the 'fell on hard times' cases, of course). As far as solutions go, I have several viable and practical ones, using my own country as an example. First would be raising the minimum wage (which Canada is doing as we speak), second would be government programs to encourage people to educate themselves and gain skills, third would be to re-allocate some of the billions of dollars the government spends on frivolous and wasteful programs into ones that help those who truly need it, fourth would be to get the Republicans out of the whitehouse, they are spending the USA right down the toilet, and fifth would be to put the brakes on the absurd number of immigrants entering the USA each and every day !! Anybody with solutions to add....?