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The Government have made having a baby so lucrative its almost a business if you are on benefits.
For instance - £500 Sure Start Maternity Grant to spend on anything you like (its supposedly to purchase baby things with)

Free baby milk, vitamins for yourself. Now the decent baby milk costs about £6 a week, so thats about £312 a year.

And if you are on low earnings etc etc you get all your rent paid, council tax paid etc at goodness knows what cost.

And you have all the organisations like Sure Start, Home Start that run free playgroups where basically you have a gaggle of teenage mums who dump their offspring for an hour (they call it playgroup but whether thats for the babies or the mums..?) and have a coffee and a fag and a natter.