[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 30 (Thursday, February 13, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H694]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 THE DESTRUCTION OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I have already spoken on the very 
significant hearing we had in the subcommittee regarding what is 
normally called welfare on Tuesday. There is another point I would like 
to make.
  In that hearing, it came out that, while it varies from couple to 
couple, there are about 90 programs 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 if getting 
married.
  In the 1950s in this country, the rate of children born without a 
mother and father at home was only 4 percent. We are now at 42 percent. 
This didn't happen by mistake. It is something that the radical 
feminists and the Marxists have always wanted: the destruction of the 
American family, particularly not having a man in the American family.
  As we work our way through the budget process and reconciliation 
process, I hope we all remember that it is not anticipated that America 
would be a country without families and get rid of these perverse 
incentives.

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