The welfare state was meant to be a safety net to ensure that people that needed help had it but unfortunately now it seems that more and more people are seeing the welfare system as a source of main income. A lot of people are having kids these days to supplement their financial status and the only people to suffer (apart from the tax payers) are the kids themselves.
Obviously not everyone on the welfare system are screwing it over, there are many people out there that are on welfare through no fault of their own but they aren't the ones that the press are interested in. The people who feign illness, disability etc are the ones that get all the publicity
