ZZ, you can go on all you like, but without statistics to back up your claims you are blowing hot air.
The information I have found applies to the USA. Some of it is rather old, but things have not changed significantly enough since the research was done to make it invalid, as the changes that have resulted are not substantial enough to subsume the costs of a baby.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-welfaremothers.htmhttp://www.voice.neu.edu/960215/welfare.htmlhttp://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1302I'm going to have to be done with this thread. It's making me very upset that there is a lot of finger-pointing at these assumed hordes of young women and not at all at the men who get them pregnant. I'm also feeling insulted on behalf of my mother, who has been on welfare twice in her adult life, and yes, she WAS a poor, unmarried, young woman with a history of drug addiction - and she is the hardest working person I have EVER met and did her damnedest to do right by me despite her problems, and she worked DAMN hard to get those problems fixed - and she would have been able to do a hell of a lot better if she hadn't had to spend most of her life working her fingers to the bone and gaining herself a permanent disability in her shoulders in the process to scrape by.
So kindly chew on that the next time you want to trash on these imagined hordes of leeches.
I live in the U.S. and I used to work in a homeless shelter for women and children. The financial help available in the U.S. for these women is dismal at best.... Most of the women I worked with had one or two children, with educations ranging from a couple of years of high school to college coursework, and I never encountered any that thought that having another baby would somehow help their financial situation. The myth of welfare mother's living the high life with government handouts is a complete joke! Most of the women I worked with were trying to finish their high school educations so that they could get jobs that would actually allow them to pay the cost of child care and earn a decent living wage to house and feed their family. In the area I live in $250/week for one child is the average cost of child care. I have a college degree, a decent job and a partner with a somewhat stable job situation and the thought of us managing a baby financially keeps me tossing and turning at night.
Renatus, I hope your mother's life has gotten easier in her later years. I'm very familiar with the disease of drug addiction and I have loads of respect for her and her accomplishments in raising a woman like you.
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