London Riots (ETA post #23: Brits, please sign the petition to axe rioters' benefits)

**phesina** · 08-18-2011, 08:02 PM

What I don't get is... 10 kids???!!!!!

Okay, so perhaps one was unexpected... but by the time #2 showed up, she should have figured out what was causing them to come along. Why the hell didn't she get sterilized then.. or at least gotten some decent birth control plan going?

I'm pretty much a "liberal" (dirty word these days).. but I think there is a lot to be said for having people on public assistance rendered incapable of reproducing, at least for that period of time. Okay, so we'll support you and your two kids while you (hopefully) start getting your life together.. but more kids?

Of course, the question then is, what happens to the additional kids?

**wombat2u2004** · 08-18-2011, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by phesina

What I don't get is... 10 kids???!!!!!

Okay, so perhaps one was unexpected... but by the time #2 showed up, she should have figured out what was causing them to come along. Why the hell didn't she get sterilized then.. or at least gotten some decent birth control plan going?

I'm pretty much a "liberal" (dirty word these days).. but I think there is a lot to be said for having people on public assistance rendered incapable of reproducing, at least for that period of time. Okay, so we'll support you and your two kids while you (hopefully) start getting your life together.. but more kids?

Of course, the question then is, what happens to the additional kids?

I don't know what the situation is like in the USA, but here in Australia, the more kids you have, the more public assistance ya get....so they just keep having more and more kids. Why work ??? That's the way they look at it.
And it isn't just the poorer classes who live this way, my daughter had a friend in Ladies College who now has two kids, lives with some bloody hobo, and they both receive welfare. I just can't understand how a girl as intelligent as she is, after being put through a school that cost her parents a fortune, can just throw it all away and live the life she is living. It is just so beyond me, I just can't figure out why they do this.

**wombat2u2004** · 08-18-2011, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by phesina

What I don't get is... 10 kids???!!!!!

Maybe she was bored and didn't have anything else to do.

**phesina** · 08-19-2011, 10:54 AM

In the U.S. (the woman in ChrisH's link is British) you get more welfare money if you have more kids too, though I've heard that the increase is nowhere near the costs of raising an additional child. Still, I guess there are people here cranking them out like clockwork, too.

**Karen** · 08-19-2011, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by phesina

In the U.S. (the woman in ChrisH's link is British) you get more welfare money if you have more kids too, though I've heard that the increase is nowhere near the costs of raising an additional child. Still, I guess there are people here cranking them out like clockwork, too.

I think that varies state to state, Phesina.