Paying for your children

[Leah-Lacie]

I don't think the OP is talking so much about child benefit though, as this is a quite small amount of money per week. I think she probably means child tax credits, which increase quite a lot with each extra child. If they were capped, at say, £100 per week for 2 children, and didn't go up with subsequent ones, it may just make people think twice before having another child for an extra £50-60 per week.

[matsalleh]

I don't think the OP is talking so much about child benefit though, as this is a quite small amount of money per week. I think she probably means child tax credits, which increase quite a lot with each extra child. If they were capped, at say, £100 per week for 2 children, and didn't go up with subsequent ones, it may just make people think twice before having another child for an extra £50-60 per week.

 

I would sign my agreement to that.

I also think having children should be a priviledge not a right

[Grandad.Malky]

Everyone seems to know their rights but sadly few know their responsibilities …………. Its my right ………… that phrase should be removed from the English vocabulary.

[chem1st]

I also think having children should be a priviledge not a right

 

What methods of sterilisation and/or infanticide do you propose we use to remove the right to have a child?

[Grandad.Malky]

What methods of sterilisation and/or infanticide do you propose we use to remove the right to have a child?

 

There we go again

 

We had two boys, my wife would have loved a girl ………. Should we have kept popping them out until we got a girl ………… after all its my right.

[Magilla]

As it is people's right to have as many kids as they wish, following the Chinese would not be acceptable. So what about this. If you wish to have children the govt will provide what they do now for up to two children, any more children in that family should be provided for by the family, totally. That way if you cant afford them dont have em. Kids are the responsibilty of the parents, not everyone else.

 

Mother of four, grandmother of 8

 

I'd go further and say the first child only.

[llamatron]

What methods of sterilisation and/or infanticide do you propose we use to remove the right to have a child?

 

that isn't how you define a right, we can't remove the ability of people to murder each other but they don't have a right to murder!

[matsalleh]

What methods of sterilisation and/or infanticide do you propose we use to remove the right to have a child?

 

Where did I say that right should be removed?

[Stvoider]

What methods of sterilisation and/or infanticide do you propose we use to remove the right to have a child?

 

Good effort for typing but a big fat F for you : Not even wrong!!!!! Epic facepalm

[love_rat]

Mother of four, grandmother of 8

 

 

 

A grandmother at 8?

 

I don't think so

 

You need to stop reading the Sunday Sport