Letter: Babies are not a passport to a life on benefits

Letter: The media is full of benefit cheats, scroungers, tax evaders, and the over-paid bankers.

Every reader will have their own thoughts about such matters, all pointing towards cutbacks for us all and some losing their jobs.

The area which really needs looking at immediately is families with large numbers of children who expect as a God-given right that the taxpayer should give them thousands each month.

A lot of these parents give nothing back to society and do nothing all their lives except produce children for cash and other benefits.

We should not outlaw having a certain number of children but I believe that, if people want a lot of children, then they should support them.

The government keeps handing money over like a reward for producing child after child and it is no wonder people in these households do not want to work and/or have no intention of working.

We cannot afford this system any longer and should be only paying families who have two children or fewer, with a little common sense built in for those mothers who produce more than one child in a pregnancy.

For those who want more children, good luck to them, but they must use their own resources.

The sooner the government looks at this situation and gives a 12-month warning that handouts cannot go on, the sooner we will get ourselves out of this financial mess.

Those who are already receiving all these handouts we can't do much about, except get those parents who are not working back into work whether it be paid work or voluntary and out of the habit of expecting everyone else to pay for them all the time.

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