Take it From Me
Society
Families
Government
Individuals on Welfare
Welfare
Politicians remained blind, at least acted that way, towards how the program was not working.
Seemed to make changes on a macro level towards welfare without testing/slowly incrementing changes over time.
Administration of Children Services, a government agency, were involved with families and may separate children from their parents.
Parents may experience family strain, work stress, environmental stress, and welfare stress.
Low wages are not enough to support families and parents have to find multiple jobs or search for outside help.
Gender roles/Role confusion
Opportunities/activities within society allow individuals to leave the house and hopefully decompress.
Society provides extra resources to help people, such as AA, NA, or other non-profit agencies to provide individuals with resources.
Society is full of judgments, and people on welfare may be judged based on how they look or act.
The plan worked to remove people from welfare.
People feel unsupported by welfare in that they only recognized the physical body and not the emotional side of things.
Public assistance does not accept everyone, and individuals can be rejected.
There can be multiple issues with finding consistent and healthy employment such as wages, layoffs, poor hours, or unhealthy bosses.
In order to "make it" people may have to put their goals on hold, and move around through welfare.
People may have to find jobs, housing, childcare, and may have had unsupporting families, unhealthy relationships, or their children taken away.
Families were automatically expected to find a job and given a time period of how long they could stay on welfare.
Not much has changed, and has built a distrust between the people and the government.
Individuals may feel unsupported by these agencies when trying to get their children back, and face even more challenges when not supported with welfare.
Males may become upset or feel bad when females were working and making more money.
Children can be negatively impacted by experiencing this stress through their parents.
The issues individuals faced are complex and the changes in welfare impacted them differently.
Still happens today.
Without assistance, whatever the assistance may be, people can experience greater challenges.
However, people were left unsupported, no childcare, uninsured.
Did the plan really work?
It appears that some individuals aren't helped on welfare and the system doesn't always assist them in moving their life forwards.
Without consistent and healthy employment, people are left without support and unable to provide for themselves or others.
People still have mixed emotions about these agencies today.
How much can welfare agencies do for individuals when what they do is limited and mandated by the government.
The system seems stacked against them.
Seems like jobs are the cornerstone of life.
Times have changed in that more people recognize the humanity in others, but individuals who are not as "well off" may still be seen or judged as the sole cause of their problems (addicts, poor mental health, poor education).
Recognize/encourage these possibilities because this outlet can be a strong resilience factor for families and children.
It is important to know/understand what other options are available within society because eventually welfare will end.
Safety net.