Which largely make up the welfare safety net, which. If somebody were to get married, a single parent would. Get married to someone with an income. They would lose the. Benefits of those programs. We heard testimony from Robert Rector that you could easily come up with hypotheticals in which someone would lose $28,000 [of benefits] getting married. In the 1950s in this country, our rate of children born without a mother and father at home. Was only 4%. We're now at. 42%. This didn't happen by mistake. (00:37–00:41)
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Asserts that marrying could result in a $28,000 loss of benefits, according to testimony from Robert Rector.
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