Conservative Claims Welfare Programs Destroyed Black Families by Incentivizing Absent Fathers

What was said

"They started to incentivize the women to not have the men in the homes in order to receive money. And the more kids they had, the more money they were going to get without the man being in a home. The government came in and now the government has become the father."

A Trump supporter argued that the first major welfare program destroyed black families by creating financial incentives for women to have children without men present in the home, effectively making government the replacement father. He claimed police officers are regularly called by single mothers because fathers aren't present to discipline children, a pattern he traced back 60 years. The argument was used to reject calls for expanded government healthcare and food assistance programs.