The Washington Post, April 4, 2016: (Op-Ed) American policy fails at reducing child poverty because it aims to fix the poor
“From the first federal social welfare program for Civil War widows to Social Security and the 1960s War on Poverty, government support for poor families in the United States has attempted to enforce a moral hierarchy based on marriage: Widows got pensions they were considered to have earned, for example, while single mothers got shame and stigma for their moral misdeeds.”