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Re: Maternity Grant
Hang on, lets get things into prospective here. We are talking about 500 quid, not a major fortune, certainly not enough to feed,cloth, and provide for a child for 6 months, let alone anything else.
Yes we can all say that if we cut the maternity gran, all the teenage girls and bad mothers will immediately stop having children, and will stop being the dross of society. We can pull all these stats up that back up this theory. Thing with stats though, they never quite tell you if they have taken on board the larger picture. The population grew during the baby boom era, so theres a knock on effect. Also society has changed and the whole unmarried mother thing is less frowned upon....
In an ideal world, we would have kids being brought up by both a mother and father, above the age of 20, in a financially and emotionally stable environment, with not a hint of tobacco smoke, alcohol fumes or raised voices. Unfortunately we live in the real world. I have yet to find someone that has had a child purely for 500 pounds maternity and 40 quid a week tax credits
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