General Discussion
Only if you want local wages to be decreased as a result of employers getting 'free' labour from the unemployed.
here in the uk we are not replacing our population so what is your solution then @burneside ?
@wondering just to backtrack a bit - and just as a matter of interest, who do your childless friends think fly the airoplanes that take them places, clean the hotel rooms they stay in, serve in the restaurants they eat in, empty their dustbins, nurse them in hospital, and will eventually put them in their coffins and bury them are? i suggest these will be other people's children. personally i ...
notice i didnt bite @jools88 ! - was too busy yawning..
Oh dear Nelson - not only have you been publicly exposed and admonished as vindictive and spiteful but now you expose yourself as petty and ridiculous....
@Lynne Of course!!!
Congratulations to you and your husband Flo- and your friends - thats exactly how it should be but mostly isnt. I dont think anything I have suggested has dismissed men's contribution because I wasn't talking about men - I was referring to WOMEN and the money they (in my view, as I've already said) should receive to recognize their role as primary carers. You can give me anecdotes all day about ...
With repect 007 I disagree - its otally a feminist issue - am tired of having to express amazement and gratitude to the very few men bringing up children alone and working full time - big deal and bully for them - women have done this forever - often overlooked by census enumerators and policy makers (and we wont even mention employers!). It is unarguable that the vast vast majority of ...
Child Benefit, in my view, should be universally available to all mothers in recognition of the work they do in the home and in bringing up families. There is much evidence to show that some mothers, even in the wealthiest households, do not have equal , and in many cases, no access to resources and that child benefit is often their ONLY income. It has been shown empirically that the work ...
Sorry this was for cheftallyrand
