Dependency Of The Poor On Government

According to Cherlin, liberals and conservatives maintain different perspectives on the issue of the “dependency” of the poor on government. Cherlin states that conservatives believe that families should be left alone by the government and that they support the breadwinner-homemaker family. Conservatives encouraged that women marry men and look at them to be the main provider of the household. Moreover, Cherlin states that liberals, on the other hand, have often expressed a desire both to use government to assist families and to help all families equally. Also, he states that the kinds of measures advanced by liberals tend to help married couple in which wives are employed outside the home and single parents more than they help breadwinner-homemaker