Most Americans wouldn't want their child to choose politics as a career, even as they believe their child could grow up to be president.

Lawrence M. Mead, author of Expanding Work Programs for Poor Men (AEI Press, 2011), argues that poor fathers, like welfare mothers, need "both help and hassle."

In the 1990s, social expectations of single mothers shifted.

Antipathy towards stay-at-home mothers goes back to the early days of modern feminism.

Requiring poor men to work is as vital as welfare reform in ameliorating family poverty.

The welfare reform of the 1990s was an unusual success for American social policy. By requiring more welfare mothers to work, reformers aimed to move them into jobs and reduce welfare rolls. Unexpectedly, reform was accompanied by a greater decline of caseloads--over 60 percent--that had previously been anticipated by research....

If advocates want to give these women a real financial boost, they should admit that the current provision is all but meaningless.

Women do not have an assigned place. In free societies, they choose where they wish to be. For at least five millon women in America, that happens to be in the home as full-time mothers. What is wrong with that?