Chapter 6 focused on a recent development of "income management", a measure which aims to control the recipients of certain family and social benefits by quarantining these benefits and limiting their use only for “priority needs”. including food, clothing, shelter and education. Through this measure, Aboriginal parents from specific indigenous communities and other non-indigenous "bad parents" were partly excluded from the "deserving" category. Since at least 2007, Australia has linked welfare and family benefits to children's “socially responsible behavior”. parents, particularly through income management. First introduced as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) under the Howard Coalition Government, it was extended beyond the NT response and was even billed as "a key tool” in the Rudd-Gillard Labor government's social reforms, indicating the importance of analyzing it not only in relation to Aboriginal affairs, but also in the context of social and family policies. Through examining debates over income management measures, Chapter 6 illustrated the process by which government management of welfare benefits became an important feature of welfare reforms and revealed that parenthood was the central by linking normative parental behavior to the provision of social and family support. payments. Much like the repetitive conflicts over welfare reforms since the 1980s, the development of income management has been a process of problematizing welfare dependency and constructing and justifying income management as a response necessary. The Howard measure introduced as part of the NTER was actually a plan to advance the government's welfare reform, based on middle of paper...... a parenting deal and allowing the government to cut payments. or make them conditional. Being labeled welfare dependent leads to the assumption that we are irresponsible parents and excluded from sufficient state assistance. At the same time, the vagueness of the term "welfare dependency" itself as well as the ambiguity of the notions/categories used to justify welfare reform (e.g. parenthood) must have made them extremely useful to governments. Single parent pensions and income management in particular have revealed the possible importance of attributes such as family, gender, ethnicity and class strata in problematizing welfare dependency. Reforms targeting specific social benefits appear to lead to the classification of particular groups of people who receive these benefits as "welfare dependents". »..”