In essence, rather than ease the burdens of child rearing with improved social programs, the HF report does the opposite… Emily Martin, the National Women’s Law Center’s chief program officer, puts it this way: “The Heritage Foundation’s rhetoric centers on the importance of heterosexual marriage and ending out-of-wedlock births and reflects a racialized hostility to women of color, and especially Black women.” and “The real goal is to encourage childbearing among whiter and more economically stable families while simultaneously demonizing poor women, especially poor women of color and immigrants who have children.”