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Lifetime Welfare Ban For Drug Addicts Dooms Their Children; Alliance for Children and Families Responds to Report
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WASHINGTON, March 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- According to a recent
Sentencing Project report, more than 40 states enforce some degree of
lifetime welfare ban on impoverished mothers convicted of drug
offenses. This ban produces more than 100,000 children who are denied
basic human services because their mothers have been caught using
drugs.
"Regardless of one's position on whether drug abusing parents
should be treated or thrown in jail," says Peter Goldberg, Alliance
for Children and Families president and CEO, "children are innocent
of any charge and must not be punished.
"The children are ...
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