I Sometimes girls want to get pregnan|, she said.

I Sometimes girls want to get pregnan|, she said. She does see the requirement that mothers name the fathers cif their children to receive aid as helpful. Currently social services tries to get this information, but there is no penalty to the mother if she refuses tib say.

Mr. McCarthy agreed that tl$; reform efforts aren’t likely to redude teen pregnancy. “They aren’t mature enough to make that kind of calculated decision,” he said.

They note that Rappahannock does not really have a heavy caseload of AFDC recipients for its population. Mrs. Leathers said there is concern ui other areas that the welfare reform bill may lead to increased homelessness, but said she does not believe that will be a problem ip Rappahannock County.

She has received no information from the State Department of Social Services on changes as a result of the state's welfare reform bill. Work requirements are scheduled to begin first in places with low unemployment. That criteria leaves Rappahannock out of the earJi^ stages of implementation. The bill will take effect July 1 or later if the state has problems getting a waiver from the federal government ro begin it.

Mrs. Leathers said she understands the frustration that has led !o demands for reform. There ase increasing numbers of young welfaie recipients who feel they are “entitled” to assistance, she said. Her social workers are more comfortable with the idea of welfare as temporary assistance rather than a way of lift:. She agreed that welfare does “build” dependency in its recipients and said she does see cases of second and third generations of mothers receiving welfare.

Both expect more effect from the state reform effort than from proposals in Congress. They are chiefly concerned that reforms not make tlje county’s situation and the department’s worse.

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