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Authoritarian regimes are no longer seen as the leading examples of a human-rights violator. Instead, that despicable label is applied increasingly to private individuals who defy various social policies related to the family, gender relations, and sexuality. Adapted from the source document.

Calls attention to the 2006 National Center for Health Statistics report that shows record-high out-of-wedlock births & a decrease in married couple households to argue that welfare reform has not only failed to encourage marriage & two-parent families but public assistance has become a "miniature penal apparatus, replete with its own tribunals, prosecutors, police, & punishments." It is contended that current trends lend credence to the warning that welfare-state principles would eventually threaten both economic prosperity & civil freedom. Ways in which the replacement of welfare with child support has transformed welfare from public assistance into law enforcement are pointed out, along with the growth of the collection machinery for "deadbeat dads"; incidents of federal officials interfering in state ballot initiatives; & heavy-handed child support enforcement methods that violate constitutional protections. Emphasis is placed on the need to rein in the welfare state by confronting the child-support system's destruction of families & the criminalization of parents. References. J. Lindroth