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Originally Posted by orangebird
This really annoys me - why should my taxes go towards paying for someone else to sit at home on their backsides because they had a baby they couldn't afford?  |
Perhaps it was unplanned? Perhaps the mother had a particular ailment where she was advised that her chances of conception were reducing as time went on and if she wanted a child she should have one at that time?
This is not about paying someone to stay at home - it's about renumerating someone for the hard work they go through in bring up a child, which does not have any "sitting on their backsides" involved.