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Originally Posted by DucksNuts
In fact, the government has recently introduced that the SAHP (Stay at home parent) *must* seek work of up to 20 hrs per week, once the children are of school age.
I'm afraid, I would much rather see a motivated parent that is obviously driven enough to want to work ....take the option of putting their children into childcare and still exercise their right to *breed*....than the person that wants to stay at home and breed for the sake of not working (and in Australia's case, collect the $4k *baby bonus*).
I just think the motivated/driven Parents gene contribution would be alot more beneficial to society on the whole and as childcare centres are (generally) really well monitored here, so the children are getting more good than harm from being in care.
Add the social interaction skills they pick up, as well as the things they would probably not experience in the SAHP environment, and I am VERY pro childcare.
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Obviously things are different. You imply in your statements that stay at home parents are lazy and working parents are not. Just out of curiosity have you tried to raise a child? No I don't mean that in a confrontational way, I am just curious. It takes a tremendous amount of time and effort to raise a child. Our children have plenty of play dates and more then enough social interaction, they participate in team sports and other activities (cub scouts etc). My wife works with the kids every day advancing their studies, As I said earlier my oldest is far beyond his peers, he is even in the gifted program. We are raising our children with our morals and work ethics not the socialist mentality that seems to pervade your response. "it takes a tribe to raise a child" mentality, Sorry don't buy that. It is a way to lower the morals and independent thought of the next generation to strengthen government so they can steal more power. The government has dictated how much a stay at home parent has to work? That really blows me away, they have forced children into daycare, they have forced them into the government indoctrination. Oh almighty goverment what shall my children do for a living? what house shall they live in, what car shall they drive? Please oh grand and glorious government tell me. What about home schooling? I guess that is against the law as well. Jessie Jackson is working on outlawing homeschooling over here even though it has been consistently shown they outperform other children in the same age group. No we don't exclusively homeschool, my oldest enjoys school. Is it against the law for someone to own something that someone else can't afford? If not it sure sounds like it is coming.
I don't get any kickback from the government to raise my child nor is it the responsibility to provide it. I do however get to keep more of my own money. Last year I only had to pay a little over $20,000 in taxes.
Like I said though, my response is not meant to attack you it's just your system is very different and has blown me away, I didn't realize Australia was that far down the socialist road.