ABSTRACT
This welfare-aid to families with dependent children-has became so stigmatized that it was jettisoned in favor of a harsh policy insisting that women caring for children under conditions of dire poverty, with no other support available, are to sweep streets and take care of other
people’s children, rather than tend to their own. And if within five years they cannot find paid unsubsidized employment, they and their families will simply be cut off from all aid. Yet, if one accepts the principle of doulia articulated and argued for in the previous chapter, welfareaid to those with dependent children or dependent elderly or disabled or ailing persons-ought not to be a despised policy but a right issued forth from a principle of care and freely dispensed to all dependency workers.
