Having another child to up your income?

miamoo

This has got to be a joke!

itch_for_a_glitch

gb12345 wrote: »

And free secure accomodation courtesy of her majesty.

I dont think the Queen pays anything towards the HB budget, and certainly not all of it.

While I am sure its a troll OP, I can assure you that the amount paid by the taxpayer to a low wage couple more than covers a sensible upbringing for a third child.

RuthnJasper

The title of this thread is sick. I hope it's not for real. God help the unfortunate child/children if it is.

cootuk

"Im assuming that will be any minute now"

Posting while bd'ing?

gb12345

itch_for_a_glitch wrote: »

I dont think the Queen pays anything towards the HB budget, and certainly not all of it.

You missed the context of the post I was replying to - geordie joe has got it.

save-a-holic

gvlmerc wrote: »

Ive read so many headlines saying that a baby cost £xxx it makes it seem so expensive, but I cant help seeing them as a bit of an earner!

My feeling is that people who only have children to earn money are the reason that the country is in the state it is today. Children are human beings and have feelings, needs and wants - they are not a means to earn extra money and then be 'dragged up' with no morals or social skills. Children should be brought into the world as an act of love, and raised in a loving, caring family. They are not a selfish financial investment.

gvlmerc

That's my point. We aren't a low wage couple and don't need the money particularly. If we budget the benefits cover it. Or maybe I am a really mean mother!

OK it seems a bit trollish, but I was genuinely surprised to find out how much we get for them, Id always thought of people struggling to make ends meet on benefits. And apparently that's not the case at all.

What I find strange is that the government hand out cash to people who clearly DONT need it

Reue

Dont feed the troll

Big_is_beautiful

I think the OP is taking the urine by asking a question like that on here, whilst people seem somewhat horrified I am certain that people do genuinely have kids to make money.
It is a sad state of affairs to think that children have now become a commodity and are not born out of sheer love, but to see how much profit they can make.
When I had my children I wanted to give then a lot of what I didn't have, not have them to clothe them in charity shop clothes and a value supermarket food packed lunch. It;s bad enough that families have to resort to this action because of a sad change in their circumstances, but to have them with the intention of bringing them up in a poverty stricken lifestyle is unthinkable.
Having two children these days is surely enough, I fail to see the need for another poor child being created for the sake of a few pounds. Horrendous and disgraceful!

RuthnJasper

Big_is_beautiful wrote: »

I think the OP is taking the urine by asking a question like that on here, whilst people seem somewhat horrified I am certain that people do genuinely have kids to make money.
It is a sad state of affairs to think that children have now become a commodity and are not born out of sheer love, but to see how much profit they can make.
When I had my children I wanted to give then a lot of what I didn't have, not have them to clothe them in charity shop clothes and a value supermarket food packed lunch. It;s bad enough that families have to resort to this action because of a sad change in their circumstances, but to have them with the intention of bringing them up in a poverty stricken lifestyle is unthinkable.
Having two children these days is surely enough, I fail to see the need for another poor child being created for the sake of a few pounds. Horrendous and disgraceful!

I completely agree with you BiB. My parents are missionaries who didn't earn a wage (their missionary organisation provided housing and living expenses once a month from donations to the organisation/charity). We didn't have the most luxurious life, but my brother and I were always well-fed and clothed - most importantly we knew we were both wanted and loved. Although my subsequent naughty habits have rendered me a bit of a let-down, hehe!

However, close to where I live, there IS a "family" who have been churning out kids for benefits purposes. Half of them are farmed out to live with their gran and at weekends/holidays the kids are turned out of the house first thing to occupy themselves and summoned back in when it starts to get dark. It's heartbreaking to see such lovely, intelligent, lively children gradually sinking through lack of parental support into foul-mouthed scumhood, simply because they are so bored.