SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Aid To Families With Dependent Children, Welfare Dependency

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: basham

Document Summary

Typically, stigmatized minorities were involuntary entrants to north american society. Have more difficult assimilating into the melting pot . Minorities have different norms, values, social institutions. The vanishing black family 1986 pbs tv special aired this view. Daniel moynihan was a liberal democratic senator from new york state. To promote personal responsibility and the work ethic poor single mothers with children over three must find employment. In 1992 election liberal bill clinton made personal responsibility and welfare reform a key issue. After his election, he pushed for more changes to end welfare as we know it . Denies aid to teenage mothers not living with parents. Denies additional aid to children born to mothers already on assistance. Denies aid to children where paternity is not clearly established. Provides virtually no funding for childcare, job training, etc. 1. discipline of free market will ultimately solve problem .