The Cost of Being Single (not single mums, proper single)

StevieJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

You don't choose to be single ... you are simply not picked.

I've never been picked.

There are more women than men - in every age group. Therefore, even if all men hooked up tomorrow, there'd still be a load of women rattling about and buying cats.
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It ain't necessarily so

silvercar

ceridwen wrote: »

Actually - child benefit IS welfare. Welfare isnt just something the unemployed get - its any money the State gives people in income.

Whilst I am thinking about "gifts" from the State - I heard just how many thousands of £s per child per year the State is giving parents towards their education (assuming they are State-educated):eek:. No-one seems to take into account that parents are getting that money, as well as whatever other monies they can claim for being parents...:cool:

Carolt has explained this already.

carolt wrote: »

As for my kids, when they're older, they will - having inherited a good work ethic - likewise work and support themselves.

Your "singles also pay for schools, NHS (giving birth and any treatment the children need), universities", is illogical - presumably those same singles themselves went to school and possibly uni, were born in an NHS hospital and have recived NHS medical treatment. They got that free, but then pay it back in later life through their taxes. My children will do the same.

You, or other singles, are not paying for my children - they will pay for themselves, just as you now do.

The only reason they don't pay for it now is because they are small children and, understandably, being a civilised society, we don't expect small children to have to work up chimneys/in factories any more to pay for their own medical care or education! Thank goodness.

We pay for them now, just as we did for you when you were a child, on the understanding that when they are older, they will pay that back through their taxes. Just as you are now repaying your costs through your taxes. NOT their costs.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've always liked Ceridwen... she knows when to type: It's a spade.

She calls it a bloody shovel (good on her)

Jacey53

Does anyone else find that being single is more time-consuming?

I have to do all the cooking, cleaning, housework, shopping stuff and all the gardening, car and house maintenance stuff too. My married sisters share the jobs with their husbands. They also have someone handy to help with flat-packs etc - I end up balancing things precariously on a pile of books etc
If I am doing jobs round the house I don't have essential tools handed to me, or regular cups of coffeee supplied.

And to add insult to injury, my housebound father will often ask me to help him with something because they are busy:rotfl:

treliac

The_White_Horse wrote: »

how is a single person worse off than a married person with two kids and a partner who does not work?

This fantasy of financial luxury.... your idea of a joke?

treliac

PasturesNew wrote: »

You don't choose to be single ... you are simply not picked.

I've never been picked.

No, I agree it's tough.... but it does avoid having to become a divorcee.

Starrystarrynight

I lived alone for many years until recently, and it always seemed to me during those years that families seem to get a lot more back from the state compared to singlies.

Malcolm.

PasturesNew wrote: »

You don't choose to be single ... you are simply not picked.

I've never been picked.

There are more women than men - in every age group. Therefore, even if all men hooked up tomorrow, there'd still be a load of women rattling about and buying cats.

Somebody said to me once: Men do the picking, women do the choosing.

Men pick a woman ... and the women choose whether to accept. It's definitely a male-driven situation....

Women need to give signals though: smile, laugh at his jokes, play with your hair, play tongue tennis e.t.c. e.t.c!

treliac

Malcolm. wrote: »

Women need to give signals though: smile, laugh at his jokes, play with your hair, play tongue tennis e.t.c. e.t.c!

Is that all it takes? :rotfl:

chucky

carolt wrote: »

No, child benefit isn't welfare. Or if so, every single person in this country has been on welfare - except for recent immigrants.

maybe in your world they're not - they're paid by the state as an allowance for people bringing up a child or children.

http://www.welfarerights.net/benefits-guides/Child-Benefit