Single-parent bailout?
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Single-parent blogger Jennifer Wolf addresses an interesting issue in her About.com column: Are single parents included under “families” getting a helping hand in the new economic stimulus package? Well, according to her, the wording of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 suggests not.
There’s at least some legs to the issue: Examiner.com picked it on their site. To me, it’s less about the stimulus package and more about the redefinition of “family,” as Wolf points out. I suppose there’s two viewpoints on this: A family should legally be a traditional family, or it should be much more loosely defined. The latter is up for interpretation, either a household of children and at least one adult in a parenting role, or whatever. And you could argue that the traditional family definition ignores some demographic realities.
No doubt the issue is heightened when you’re talking about who gets stimulus money and how much is out there to give. But I suspect it’s a gray area we’re going to have to define at some point or other.
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on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 1:41 pm by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon.
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That’s a bit silly. A family typically consists of Parent(s) and children. to rule out single parent is ludicrous because the dynamic may be that the single status is due to death of the spouse and to rule out the dynamic of a single parent is a bit premature. I believe we have an issue of “the sky is falling” Let’s just see how teh whole “bailout” plays out. as it is there should be outrage at GM and AIG asking for more.. they should be called “Oliver!” wanting more how dare they!