Welfare mothers to be forced to work

[AboveTheSalt]

Originally Posted by Pheebs

See now you say educationally challenged but these girls weren't.

I really didn't express myself very well there, did I

I didn't mean to suggest that the girls you describe were "educationally challenged". I quoted a particular example of which I am aware, where a "not very bright" woman keeps having children simply because she lacks the sense to do otherwise. She will produce children who may well follow the same path in the future. How does one break this cycle, other than by a fairly drastic attack on her rights as a woman?

The same would apply in the case of a reasonably intelligent girl or woman who sees having children as a desirable "life choice".

Originally Posted by Desmo

The solution for me is to replace most of the money handed out with vouchers. Vouchers can be accepted anywhere, in any shop, but only on certain items. Now you can reduce the benefits being handed out and make sure it's only spent on necessary items and not beer, fags, sky and consoles.

Seems reasonable except that I suspect that the recipients of the vouchers would soon find a way of converting them into more "usable" currency and you would end up devising ever more complex ways of administering them.

Still, might help to get the unemployment figures down, so perhaps you are onto a winner