Just do the most basic Google search. Here, I'll start for you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230345/#:~:text=This%20simple%20analysis%20shows%20that,c

Just do the most basic Google search. Here, I'll start for you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230345/#:~:text=This%20simple%20analysis%20shows%20that,correlated%20with%20single%2Dmotherhood%20rates https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230345/#:~:text=This%2.... However, a majority of the newer studies show that welfare has a significantly negative effect on marriage or a positive effect on fertility rather than none at all. Because of this shift in findings, the current consensus is that the welfare system probably has some effect on these demographic outcomes. Based on this review, it is clear that a simple majority of the studies that have been conducted to date show a significant correlation between welfare benefits and marriage and fertility, suggesting the presence of such behavioral incentive effects. But it's also just obvious. And then the effects of kids from single-mother homes: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-children-raised-with-absent-fathers-worse-off/#:~:text=Children%20raised%20by%20single%20mothers,success%20in%20the%20labor%20market https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-children-raised-with-.... This is all widely known and generally agreed on. That the outcomes of kids from single-mother homes are far worse than married coupled homes when you control for income, etc.