>”My mother looks after our son two days a week. It costs us about £500 a month as we pay her the average childminder rate for our area.
Loool, nice grandma.
You should factor in the costs of child care when you have a child.
Why is that for any other subject of someone spending more than they earn, the answer is always “live within your means, stop spending money on things you don’t need”.
But the second they have a child it’s like they think it’s a “get out of all responsibilities” card and the government should pay for everything.
Article is missing the elephant in the room – that is tax thresholds are set extremely low and have not been adjusted for inflation for years.
This means single parent earning £39k will pay £4k more tax than two parents making £19.5k each.
The difference is much higher when single parent crosses the higher tax rate threshold.
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Remember when people raised their own children and you didn’t need both parents working 40 hours a week to be middle class?
I was born in the 90’s so I don’t, but presumably someone here does.
There’s a lot of talk about a 4-day work week, which is fine, but it won’t really help solve this problem. A 6 hour work day would go a long way towards that, though.
immaculate conception is not that common for this to be a shock.
Erm OK…
Now try bring single without kids.
NO HELP FOR YOU FRIEND
If you’re not raising your own kids, someone else is. The quality is going to be lower. Garbage in, garbage out.
Child “care” places have got a lot of pedos attracted to these jobs.
Democracy got you here. Keep voting, I’m sure it’ll help.
Yep, childcare costs are roughly the same price as our mortgage
And you’re pleading with us to increase the birth rate
Yeh right….
I honestly think the root cause of all these problems is the cost of housing.
Back in the day my mum was a full time stay at home mum. And that was common place.
You can’t do that now because housing eats up so much of income.
Single mothers struggle? Who’d have thunk it? If only there was an institution that has existed for thousands of years that would provide support for these women and children?
Not that it’d help much. You’d still be overpaying on tax for a crumbling infrastructure, a busted NHS and a justice system that works only for certain people.
The current system is fucked. Me and my partner are denied even the current minimal help because she doesn’t earn enough.
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>”My mother looks after our son two days a week. It costs us about £500 a month as we pay her the average childminder rate for our area.
Loool, nice grandma.
You should factor in the costs of child care when you have a child.
Why is that for any other subject of someone spending more than they earn, the answer is always “live within your means, stop spending money on things you don’t need”.
But the second they have a child it’s like they think it’s a “get out of all responsibilities” card and the government should pay for everything.
Article is missing the elephant in the room – that is tax thresholds are set extremely low and have not been adjusted for inflation for years.
This means single parent earning £39k will pay £4k more tax than two parents making £19.5k each.
The difference is much higher when single parent crosses the higher tax rate threshold.
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Remember when people raised their own children and you didn’t need both parents working 40 hours a week to be middle class?
I was born in the 90’s so I don’t, but presumably someone here does.
There’s a lot of talk about a 4-day work week, which is fine, but it won’t really help solve this problem. A 6 hour work day would go a long way towards that, though.
immaculate conception is not that common for this to be a shock.
Erm OK…
Now try bring single without kids.
NO HELP FOR YOU FRIEND
If you’re not raising your own kids, someone else is. The quality is going to be lower. Garbage in, garbage out.
Child “care” places have got a lot of pedos attracted to these jobs.
Democracy got you here. Keep voting, I’m sure it’ll help.
Yep, childcare costs are roughly the same price as our mortgage
And you’re pleading with us to increase the birth rate
Yeh right….
I honestly think the root cause of all these problems is the cost of housing.
Back in the day my mum was a full time stay at home mum. And that was common place.
You can’t do that now because housing eats up so much of income.
Single mothers struggle? Who’d have thunk it? If only there was an institution that has existed for thousands of years that would provide support for these women and children?
Not that it’d help much. You’d still be overpaying on tax for a crumbling infrastructure, a busted NHS and a justice system that works only for certain people.
The current system is fucked. Me and my partner are denied even the current minimal help because she doesn’t earn enough.
Looks like the changes won’t help us either.