In a publication of her piece "From the Welfare Rolls, a Mother's View" in Newsweek.
Magazine in August 1999, the author Elyzabeth Joy Stagg describes her personal .
circumstances that led to her need for public assistance. Being one herself, she also .
expresses her feelings and her point of view on the topic of welfare moms.
"From the Welfare Rolls, a Mother's View" by E.J.Stagg touched my feelings and made .
me change my perception of welfare moms a little. Stagg states that most people believe .
that welfare recipients simply don't want to work. And I have to agree with her, people .
who have a job tend to think this way. But there are also people who fit into that category. .
For example, I have an aunt who is going to be 40 this year. She has five children from .
five different men. She dropped out of school when she was 14 and she has never had a .
job for more than two weeks. She says she doesn't like to work. On the contrary, Stagg .
makes a different impression. As she proves, there are people on welfare who desperately .
want to work to earn some money to live a better life. And she isn't just a statistic. She .
has many skills and qualifications. In my opinion she makes it clear that being on welfare .
is not her first and final choice. .
Stagg writes that her children's fathers are both more than 10 years older than she is. It .
seems to me that she follows a certain pattern of bad choices and bad decision making. .
Otherwise she wouldn't have had unprotected sex again and she wouldn't have gotten .
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Y. Dietzold P.2 .
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pregnant a second time.