There’s enough stress on parents, without the childcare burden
Life with children is brilliant; but ultimately stressful. However, it is stress we put upon ourselves, constantly questioning our life choices, what we are teaching our children and above all, are we getting it right?
Now, I already have a big enough beef with society. If I stay at home, I’m a scrounger, or I have no ambition. If I go to work, I am a bad mum who doesn’t care about her child and is happy to just pass her onto any old person to bring them up. So don’t even get me started on that no-win situation. Next on my society hating hit list; the price of childcare. Also, the fact that the less ambition and motivation you have to get a job and provide for your family, the more support you gets from the government, which I believe to be beyond ridiculous.
Mainly what upsets me is the lack of consideration from the government before deciding on how to share out the little childcare help available. They do not consider what families actually have to pay for; they just look at income. If they took away the cost of things that hardworking people have to pay for, i.e full price rent/mortgage, the cost of one car between two adults, council tax and utilities (the things that non-politicians cannot fiddle to make someone else pay for) I imagine they will be seriously startled when they realise just how little families are left with at the end of the month.
The startling truth is that full-time childcare costs minimum of £600, ranging up to well over a grand. This cost should certainly not outweigh the cost of rent or a mortgage, but in many households it taking over. Even part-time childcare can render working pointless. If we are rendering working pointless, all we are going to be left with is a country full of people staying at home and claiming benefits, because if you can get the same amount of money, or in some cases EVEN MORE by staying at home and doing nothing, why wouldn’t you? The problem is that this mindset has become far more widespread in recent years and is costing the government millions.
I am not saying that staying home with your children is a bad thing, in fact I think it is a wonderful thing if you can afford it. I just think it is a bad example to do it at the expense of someone else; it is setting a bad example. What I am saying is that parents who do work and want to work, deserve the help that other European parents are getting, because it is the only way we will get back on our feet as a country as the current system is holding parents back and facilitating laziness.
