Transcripts for CNN State of the Union With Candy Crowley 20

CNN State of the Union With Candy Crowley January 26, 2014 17:22:00

aid to single women who receive government poverty funds if they keep having children. can you explain to me what you meant? >> actually, i said kind of the opposite. i said a lot of times government can't do anything about this but the number one cause in our country -- and i don't think you can debate this -- of poverty is having kids before you're married. but i tell people over an over again, i can't make you get married. i can't do anything about that. but what i would say is that we shouldn't just give up. the community, ministers, pastors, parents, grandparents, we need to be saying -- and this is maybe one of the most important things we ought to be saying that doesn't have a specific policy prescription -- but we need to be telling our kids that poverty is linked to having children before you're married and the institution of marriage is incredibly important, not just as a religious institution, but as an economic institution. >> so you did not suggest that

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