geordiecorsa
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there is a reason the school i teach in has a creche in the mornings, and breakfast club, and after school club, so parents can go out to work without the stresses of babysitters, however if your child is at breakfast club at 7.30am until 6pm, where is the mass parental imput into thier lives, parents being of cours, the children's earliest care provider.
(that spelling doesn't look right, and it hurt to think of that reply, wet playtime and lunches really screws a class up!)
[Edited on 11-10-2006 by geordiecorsa]
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Ian
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Originally posted by Robin
yeah, but if they have 5 kids, £1500 a month won't go far with food, rent, clothes, bills, council tax etc.
its not as straight cut as people assume 
Granted the costs are the same whether the money is earnt or given, but with the latter its taxpayers who fund it.
You might even say that running a house and bringing kids up is a full time job - you would be right - but who is paying the wages? Not the profit-making employer.
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Ian
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Originally posted by --Dave--
if benefits were to be taken away I'm pretty sure birth rates wouldn't drop.
Problem there is that they wouldn't drop sufficiently to remove outright poverty. You need childminders in order to work before they're school age, and then you need flexible working hours after they are.
And if you don't work and don't get benefits but still have a child by mistake, you steal or starve.
Personally I would keep it in my pants until there are means to do the job, but thats me knowing the consequences and putting the welfare of my children before my desire to jump in to bed.
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Ian
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Originally posted by Robin
she got pregnant by accident
She fell over and landed on his willy 
Pregancy is not an accident. Sex is a risk.
ps. good on her for having a go. I know a number of people who are having a go, and this thread isn't about them.
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Robin
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Originally posted by Ian
She fell over and landed on his willy
good point 
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