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Many critics of the current welfare system argue that existing welfare regulations foster family instability. They maintain that
Many critics of the current welfare system argue that existing welfare regulations foster family instability. They maintain that
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2013-01-12
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Many critics of the current welfare system argue that existing welfare regulations foster family instability. They maintain that those regulations, which exclude most poor husband and wife families from Aid to Families with Dependent Children assistance grants, contribute to the problem of family dissolution. Thus, they conclude that expanding the set of families eligible for family assistance plans or guaranteed income measures would result in a marked strengthening of the low-income family structure. If all poor families could receive welfare, would the incidence of instability change markedly? The unhappily married couple, in most cases, remain together out of a sense of economic responsibility for their children, because of the high costs of separation, or because of the consumption benefits of marriage. The formation, maintenance, and dissolution of the family is in large part a function of the relative balance between the benefits and costs of marriage as seen by the individual members of the marriage. The major benefit generated by the creation of a family is the expansion of the set of consumption possibilities. The benefits from such a partnership depend largely on the relative dissimilarity of the resources or basic endowments each partner brings to the marriage. Persons with similar productive capacities have less economic "cement" holding their marriage together. Since the family performs certain function society regards as vital, a complex network of social and legal buttresses has evolved to reinforce marriage. Much of the variation in marital stability across income classes can be explained by the variation in costs of dissolution imposed by society, e. g. division of property, alimony, child support, and the social stigma attached to divorce. Marital stability is related to the costs of achieving an acceptable agreement on family consumption and production and to the prevailing social price of instability in the marriage partners social economic group. Expected AFDC income exerts pressures on family instability by reducing the cost of dissolution. To the extent that welfare is a form of government subsidized alimony payments, it reduces the institutional costs of separation and guarantees a minimal standard of living for wife and children. So welfare opportunities are a significant determinant of family instability in poor neighborhoods, but this is not the result of AFDC regulations that exclude most intact families from coverage. Rather, welfare instability occurs because public assistance lowers both the benefits of marriage and the costs of its disruption by providing a system of government subsidized alimony payments.
Some criticize the current welfare regulations because ______.
选项
A、those regulations encourage family dissolution
B、the low-income families are not given enough family assistance grants
C、they expand the set of families eligible for family assistance
D、the guaranteed income measures are increased
答案
A
解析
一些人批评现行的福利条例,因为这些条例促成了家庭的解体。答案的依据是本文开头的两句。这两句的意思是,许多批评现行福利制度的人认为,现行的福利条例促成了家庭关系的不稳定。由于这些条例把大多数由贫困夫妻组成的家庭排除在外,没有让他们享受为需要扶养的孩子所提供的津贴,因而导致了家庭的解体。
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