Meaning of welfare mother | Babel Free

Definitions

A woman who receives government support for dependent children.

US

Examples

“Welfare mothers who stay in school and finish their high school education secure a stable job and exit welfare rapidly.”

“Here the welfare mother is the bad mother; the castrating matriarch.”

“In fact, the political preoccupation with welfare reform, as it encompassed drastic changes to multiple forms of public assistance, became synonymous in the arguments of avid reformers with assumptions about undeserving welfare mothers, deviant women's responsibility, and dependency.”

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