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This 3 page paper gives a brief outline and critical review of Karen Secombe's book, So You Think I Drive A Cadillac. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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ranks last in terms of providing basic health care and social services to its citizens is beyond anyones understanding. But, beyond the travesty of the program called welfare is the
double insult of both having to be on welfare in the first place coupled with the negative image that most have of welfare recipients. Karen Secombes book: So You Think
I Drive a Cadillac, deals the most commonly held myths about welfare recipients in an attempt to eliminate these negative images. She begins by attacking the myth that
most of the people receiving welfare are women, generally of some ethnic persuasion. She goes on to state that the national statistics show that more children accept welfare and benefit
from welfare than women, regardless of ethnic background or age. Seccombe obtained her information through a comprehensive interview process of women who applied for help through the Alachua AFDC(Seccombe 26-47).
What she found was that there was a wide range in ages, all of them working, all of them striving to better their educational background. She also asked them why
they thought they needed welfare and what were the circumstances that they believed contributed to their demise. Seccombe also broached the topic of how they are perceived in the community
and how these welfare recipients dealt with those prejudices. "Some people", she said, believe that if a woman is on welfare in todays booming economy, it must be her own
fault"(Chico State). One of the largest myths, she illustrates, is that welfare participants are lazy. Many of the women she profiled and interviewed hated being on welfare, but realized
that their children would have suffered had they not accepted the help. In addition, many of these women were working two jobs. The welfare system, at the present time, Seccombe
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