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I am having a hard time believing that a welfare check is a big enough incentive to ward off people falling in love with each other and forming families.

Maybe I just don't know anything about people.
You can fall in love and start a family just fine without getting married, which is exactly what happened, so there is no official record of the a dad in the picture, and this "dad" disappears during social worker visits.

You think it is a myth, I have an entire step family of idiots who have been doing this for 2 generations and they openly admit that they have no incentive to get married. In fact, the "dads" actually avoid signing the birth certificates for this same reason, which is kind of funny because with the moms blinded by greed for their benefits they don't see that this screws them out of child support in the future....

If poor white trash will do it then poor black trash is doing it, too. Without the marriage contract the relationship becomes a drift-in and drift-out again arrangement.

Lack of an able bodied male increases benefits, as did each child. In the 1980s a single mom of 5 could make a middle class salary without raising a finger, and got food stamps and WIC on top of that.

I'd be curious to see numbers on two-parent signed birth certificates these days.