Bag's Rants

Subsidising others with Children. Part of our policies.

I was reading this article about child free couples objecting to paying for couples with children with Government subsidies. Now they do have a point. However, you can have the same issues with providing cycle lanes, dog waste bins, ramblers rights of way, disabled access to name a few. Where do you draw the line? The article mentions that there is now a movement towards rebelling against this process which is also felt in the workplace where having children seems to be a ticket for days off and holiday date favouritism.

Could you image the chaos it would create if they did manage to get a policy change at Government level? Imagine it, no payments from the child free to those with children. Our whole social system would collapse. How would all the single mums survive? Plus, it would open the doors to people who then say 'I don't use the library. Why should I pay for it?' Substitute your own favourite here.

They may make changes in the workplace, and probably will, it's all part of the reason working mums find it so difficult to get decent employment. They always come in with unwritten requirements. However, they will never get any Government to change their policies primarily as they seem to be trying to reverse the trend of population decline in the UK by encouraging children. Good luck to them. Although the people taking up these subsidies will, in effect, be getting paid to have children via a Government scheme. These are the same mum's who are leaving school with few, if any, qualifications. So no real jobs only a Government breeding programme. Do we really want to encourage this?

posted by Bag @ 5:30 pm