her factors that have caused a culture of dependency in the welfare
             The reasons why welfare dependency exists
             One group of people that is thought to be more susceptible to welfare
             dependency is teenage mothers. A book entitled, Teen Mothers and the
             Revolving Welfare Door explains that this dependency occurs because the
             income that can be received from welfare is greater than what they could
             make working fulltime jobs because of their minimal skills. (Furstenberg
             and Harris) The author explains that a system that was created to help
             people in their time of need has become an excuse not to work. The book
             "Social and fiscal concern over early non marital childbearing
             escalated throughout the 1980s and tops the list for policy action in
             the 1990s. Prior to 1980 the public discourse over teenage
             childbearing and welfare dependency focused on alleviating the adverse
             consequences of non marital childbearing by providing mothers with
             economic support, education, and job training, and by fostering
             children's development. During the 1980s, however, attention shifted
             toward curbing the incidence of teenage parenting by eliminating
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