Politics
Does Santorum Still Think Single Moms Are “Breeding More Criminals,” Destroying America?
12:30 pm, March 6th | by Laura Donovan
One of the many downsides of working in politics is that anything you say can come back and haunt you.
This has become a pattern for GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum, who reportedly said during his 1994 Senate campaign that single mothers “[breed] more criminals” and are the catalyst for the downfall of our nation.
In February 1994 transcripts obtained by Mother Jones, Santorum said at a Pennsylvania townhall meeting, “Most people agree a continuation of the current [welfare] system will be the ruination of this country. We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it’s falling apart because of single moms.”
Citing the increase in both welfare rolls and single mothers, Santorum argued that single moms needed politicians who were unafraid of “kicking them in the butt.”
At another Pennsylvania event the following month, Santorum spoke of welfare reform as a possible public security problem, stating, “What we have is moms raising children in single-parent households simply breeding more criminals.”
Santorum’s campaign did not return a request for comment about whether the former senator still maintains these views on single mothers, but did say late last year that the base of the Democratic Party is “single mothers who run a household…because it’s so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they’re going to vote.”
To reduce the Democratic advantage, he said, we must “build two parent families, you eliminate that desire for government.” Santorum also argued in December that single mothers will intentionally avoid marriage to collect welfare benefits, so we’re thinking he wouldn’t necessarily be buddy-buddy with them now.
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