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Originally Posted by dr wadd
While I don`t agree with this idea, and I certainly wouldn`t argue for more to be paid, a sum of £150 a week really isn`t going to make it worthwhile for anyone to take up this offer. It just about equates with minimum wage, assuming a 35 hour working week, but for a large number of people this is going to represent a drop in income that isn`t particularly attractive. Even if you end up paying for child care there will a lot of mothers for whom this isn`t a finanancially viable option.
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It would be great for us. Mrs T stopped work for our family as we believe it will be better for our children (one so far, more to come we hope) to have quality time with their parents than more material posessions but less time with parents as we're off earning to pay for it all. Being a single-income family is a challenge however. We get by, and we are comfortable, but only by being careful and constantly making choices. This current Government claims to believe in the family yet it will not do basic family-friendly things like allowing Mrs T's tax-free allowance to be transferred to me. In lieu of something eminently sensible like that, I think the Tory idea of a minimum wage paid to the carer of the child is a great idea. It recognises the economic importance of children to our nation's future.