,Combatting Illegitimacy and Counseling Teen Abstinence: A Key Component of Welfare Reform

Combatting Illegitimacy and Counseling Teen Abstinence: A Key Component of Welfare Reform


 

Publication Date: October 2002

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Joseph J. Piccione; Robert A. Scholle

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Welfare

Type: Report

Abstract:

Soaring rates of illegitimacy are threatening America’s social fabric. But Members of Congress and state officials, as they wrestle with the problems of reforming America’s welfare system, can design a functional public policy to combat adolescent pregnancy and illegitimate births. This policy should be based on personal responsibility, including sexual abstinence.