Single Mothers in UK
Parenting a child well is a worthwhile, necessary, demanding full time JOB OF WORK. To put a parent with no working partner under pressure to work (under threat of financial penalty) when a child is under 5 may cause long term psychological damage to the child. Research shows how personality problems are formed in children traumatised before the age of 5. These lead to future (costly) social problems. Vulnerable children need love and stability with their biological parent/s. Why destroy a child's developing sense of self, learned through family love, security and discipline by paying a childminder when you can pay the parent to do the job she/he is biologically programmed to do. Children left with trauma find it easy to turn away from family to gangs for security and recognition. Children of all ages are vulnerable to abuse as they grow up looking for love they can't find at home. These are some of the problems exacerbated because our culture does not appear to value good parenting as a JOB OF WORK.
Sign here and pass it on: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PARENTINGISAJOB/
Sign here and pass it on: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PARENTINGISAJOB/
Comments
The recent report by the OECD clearly shows that the incidence of single motherhood can be reduced – and must be reduced – by a reduction in the level of benefits paid. The academic Libertad Gonzalez showed in her study that in countries where single parent benefits are less generous there is less of a problem with fatherless children.
Are you going to offer to pay for my children? Thought not. Destroy society if you must, but don’t ask me to pay for it. I won’t be signing your petition.