Things like this disgust me, almost to the point of feeling physically sick.
Firstly, the mother is trying to blame it all on the schools saying "sex education for young girls should be better". I'm sorry but in my opinion, this is all the mother's fault. OK, sex education might not be great but you can't say it is someone else's responsibility to teach them about sex. As a parent it is your responsibility to teach your children about morals, about being a good person, and things like sex education, how to handly money, not academic things. If you can't teach your kids how to control themselves sexually or how to have sex in a safe environment then you have no-one else but yourself to blame.
Secondly, these three kids get £600 a week. That's £31600 a year. Now I'm not sure if that's between the three of them or each. But no doubt they'll get a council flat each from the government and free childcare and all the other stuff. I'm sorry, my friend's mum earns less than a third of that a year. She earns less than one of these girls a year. She has a son at university to support, she has her own house to pay for and is divorced, looks after her mum as well and yet she doesn't get benefits from the government. She works hard to provide for her family and yet these three girls get "knocked up" and are given cash from the government.
I can support people who geniuly are poor needing money, those who can't work for any reason or those who really are looking for a job and can't get one. Cases like these I dispise. A girl I went to primary school with has a baby, she has a council flat provided for her by the government (and a rather nice one at that) and is given a handful of benefits by the government. I work hard for my money and earn less than she does. My brother had a girl who he went to primary school with who got pregnant. She lives in a larger house than my family (given to her by the government) and gets an absurd number of benefits while my brother trundles on working hard for his money. This is just crap, and it needs to stop.
Thoughts and opinions anyone?
Edited by AdmiralGT, 23 May 2005 - 10:19 PM.