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Couples 'up to £200 a MONTH worse off than single mothers'
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I actually quite like the Daily Mail, someone at work buys it and I regularly flick through when the paperwork starts to depress me. It never fails to amuse.
The other staff members buy the Sun, the Star and the Daily Record and I can't even bring myself to open them.
If the Daily Mail, or anyone else with an axe or an opinion, says that I am better off as a single parent then who am I to disagree?
Hiya ws, nice to see you!
Yeah the DM has some good 'magazine' type articles and I don't disagree with all the rest, well some of it I do, but wouldn't open the others you mention either. Slagging it off has just become fashionable imo.0 -
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: OMG ws you are surely trollingHow do you know?
Is it something your parents read in the Daily Mail and convinced you is true?
something i'm rarely accused of. thanks ;-)Slagging it off has just become fashionable imo.We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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I actually quite like the Daily Mail, someone at work buys it and I regularly flick through when the paperwork starts to depress me. It never fails to amuse.
The other staff members buy the Sun, the Star and the Daily Record and I can't even bring myself to open them.
If the Daily Mail, or anyone else with an axe or an opinion, says that I am better off as a single parent then who am I to disagree?
I don't buy a paper but if I did I would buy the mail.
Its got the best travel, womens, cooking & beauty articles:)0 -
I don't see what's so controversial about my OP - the fact is that there are people who pretend not to be together so as to claim more benefits. And that we have a benefit system that rewards people financially for doing that; that encourages couples to split up and/or lie about it.
I'm not arguing that being a single mother is a cushy number or that all single mothers are lying or anything so ludicrous. But it does really annoy me that if I was single the state would pay benefits to me to stay at home until my youngest child was - what is it now, 7?
Whereas those in a couple are not afforded that same luxury - we have no choice and for some unaccountable reason our children don't need us in the same way as children of single parents who require their parents to be at home.
I'd like to see a situation where all parents of pre-school children were financially enabled to stay with their children if they so chose - not a rule which says single parents may, but parents in couples may only qualify for childcare costs to pay someone else to look after their children while they're at work (and that's if they're lucky). But for nothing if they want the luxury of looking after their own children.0 -
Two points to address:)
The whole "if you deny it and he doesn't boast about it, it never happened thing". If a tree falls in a wood and everyone denies chopping it down, did it still fall?
As to reading the Daily Mail. I like it. I don't agree with half of their articles. I mean, did you read the fruit makes you fat thing? Utter nonsense.
If I only read stuff I agreed with, I'd be reduced to Adolphus Huxley and Asheron........Retail is the only therapy that works0 -
But this is where its all so twisted and wrong!Whereas those in a couple are not afforded that same luxury - we have no choice and for some unaccountable reason our children don't need us in the same way as children of single parents who require their parents to be at home.
Couples are afforded the luxury of choice of staying at home with the kids. Its called one of them working. Or both of them shift working/working PT.
And I have no axe to grind here speaking as a non-single who chooses to dump my kids everyday
, its just simply that the supposed facts here are wrong 
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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How do you know?
Is it something your parents read in the Daily Mail and convinced you is true?
I am not recommending shagging the first passerby you come across but if you honestly miss sex, pick someone up now and again.
If you dont tell and they dont it never really happened.......
Nah, the parents have told me to get out and have a bit!
It's a bit deeper than that...plus I never get to go our anyway, well not without the children anyway.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
But this is where its all so twisted and wrong!
Couples are afforded the luxury of choice of staying at home with the kids. Its called one of them working. Or both of them shift working/working PT.
And I have no axe to grind here speaking as a non-single who chooses to dump my kids everyday, its just simply that the supposed facts here are wrong
I dont think you are right.
Which is a nice way of saying you are wrong:)
Who really has the luxury of one parent staying at home these days? Or who can get two jobs to mesh so perfectly that a child can always be with a parent?
I speak as a single parent who has issued her brat with a door key and a PS3 and told her Mommy will hopefully be home around five.
The problem isn't singles versus married, it is that society and the pressure of the leccy bill has taken away our choices as mothers.
We can either give up and move to a sink estate and do benefits or we can miss our children growing up.Retail is the only therapy that works0 -
I do not think you are rightI dont think you are right.
Which is a nice way of saying you are wrong:)
Who really has the luxury of one parent staying at home these days? Or who can get two jobs to mesh so perfectly that a child can always be with a parent?
I speak as a single parent who has issued her brat with a door key and a PS3 and told her Mommy will hopefully be home around five.
The problem isn't singles versus married, it is that society and the pressure of the leccy bill has taken away our choices as mothers.
We can either give up and move to a sink estate and do benefits or we can miss our children growing up.
I really challenge anyone (well, couple) to work (either 1x ft or 2x pt etc) and come up with less than £200 per week after housing costs. Which would be what I imagine the going rate is for IS, CTC, CB etc nowadaysWe cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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