Benefits - Only for lazy, stupid people....

2. Stop trying to derail the thread.
3. It really depends on the type of family we're talking about! Of course their children shouldn't be taken into care if they have been hard working and were made redundant due to misfortune - benefits are there for that reason. Firstly, the parents need to see where they can make cutbacks and if they have any savings. If not, I have no objection to some state help. Redundancy can happen to anyone, as the 2008 recession has proved.

Then say that instead of 'if you are unemployed don't have kids'

You may know what being unemployed is like, but how do you know what being an unemployed single parent is like?

So is a lot of Benefits. If you have savings over a certain level, you have to contribute to your JSA.

And how is it a grandparents responsibility to pay for their grandchild? But its the PARENTS child. Therefore the PARENTS income is taken into consideration. Do you expect your parents income to be taken into consideration when you have a child if you have to apply for childcare vouchers, for example? Or child benefit? Or if you have to apply for benefits because you can't work, if that happens?

University isn't a necessity- if you cant afford it, guess what, you don't go. People rely on benefits to SURVIVE.

If people decide to have children and they know they cannot afford them, they deserve no sympathy and I view them to be unbelievably selfish.

You have to have over £16K before you are not entitled to JSA.

University is a necessity- we need people to do the jobs that require a degree.

We don't need flaming single parents/ others on benefits.

I wouldn't have a child if I couldn't afford childcare/everything else it needed- but then again Im not a scrounger.

You are 18 when you go to uni- an adult- so why should your parents income be taken into account for that?

Is this class warfare here? Are you implying poor people shouldn't get a higher education and better jobs?

This is quite frankly one of the most disgusting things i have ever read.

My mother is single, thus you assume she is stupid? My mother is a very, very intelligent person who has managed to land a job that would equate to ~47k a year. (I say this as she fosters and has a disability so doesn't work full hours). She had incredibly high grades while she was younger and her 'test' for her job landed her in the top 10- people who ever took it at that (very large) company.

Why would a single mother be automatically be deemed stupid?

I'm sure my dad didnt just go 'oh, she's stupid, bye bye'. ¬_¬

If anything i respect the intelligence, decisions and views of single mothers more than others.

If she is so intelligent, surely she wouldn't have gotten knocked up without a stable relationship.

Boo-hoo. She must know how to use it well enough to go through the laborious online process of applying for benefits.

If she is so intelligent, surely she wouldn't have gotten knocked up without a stable relationship.

I am a single parent, and I work 35 hours a week. The only benefit I do get is child benefit, which goes straight into a savings account for my daughter, I see it as money for her so I don't touch it.

I was very ill after childbirth, to the extent it nearly cost me my life. So, if I can work- why can't others who's only problem they suffered during childbirth was most likely from the nicotine withdrawals?

When I couldn't work (for nearly 11 months) I didn't claim a single penny in income support, housing benefit, or the rest! I stayed with my parents, and they gave us what we needed, nothing else- and I was fine was that. If my parents weren't willing to give it, why should someone who works there backside off for 40 hours a week who might have his own family to support??

If I didn't work I would be entitled to nearly £15,000 a year. How on earth is that justified when I work a 40 hour week for just £3k a year more!!

What about the people who dont still live with their parents? How do you pay for childcare? You entitled to child tax credit or childcare vouchers, why don't you claim them??

What about them?? Why can't they go out to work like I do?? I lived with my parents while I couldn't work, and now that I can I live independently and pay my rent myself. My parents and friends look after my daughter while i'm working, I don't see the point in putting my daughter in a nursery where she will share the attention of a nursery nurse with six other children when my parents and friends are perfectly capable and willing to look after my daughter just as well if not better.

I guess your one of the lucky ones, huh?? I have been trying to find a job for nearly 12 months, on work experience programme (not actually on a placement yet) VOLUNTARILY. I am trying to get a job, im not a benefits scrounger at all. If I was offered a job, i would grasp it with both hands.

I am a single parent, and I work 35 hours a week. The only benefit I do get is child benefit, which goes straight into a savings account for my daughter, I see it as money for her so I don't touch it.

I was very ill after childbirth, to the extent it nearly cost me my life. So, if I can work- why can't others who's only problem they suffered during childbirth was most likely from the nicotine withdrawals?

When I couldn't work (for nearly 11 months) I didn't claim a single penny in income support, housing benefit, or the rest! I stayed with my parents, and they gave us what we needed, nothing else- and I was fine was that. If my parents weren't willing to give it, why should someone who works there backside off for 40 hours a week who might have his own family to support??

If I didn't work I would be entitled to nearly £15,000 a year. How on earth is that justified when I work a 40 hour week for just £3k a year more!!

Many of us were bought up in homes where there were constant arguments- never done us any harm.