Single life and career versus parents with kids

@Rob
5 kids
Another one sponging of the state.
You want and have kids then you shouldn't expect single people to support you.

Well..I have 5 kids and the benefits go up with each child......It's great....I'm not moaning about anything.... The original griper seems a stuck up cow to me.

Could not agree more, I am sick of listening to parents going on about there so called responsibilties! If they did'nt want the hassel then they should have thought about having kids before they did.

Yes, you do have huge responsibilities ; the same ones that everyone else has to reduce our population. Every problem that the world faces from oil to food to clean water will made immeasurably worse if our numbers keep growing.

Please don't say that it is only poor countries who are adding to the population explosion - each individual is responsible for their own actions.

If every woman had four children then the population of our small country would make life intolerable here. Thank god not everyone is as irresponsible as you are.

I have huge responsibilities as a mother of four, however that state brings so many other benefits, social, mental and emotional that single friends will never have, and would like despite those heavy responsibillities. Those friends are not fulfilled in the same way, and find their demanding jobs harder because they don't have the 'balance of life'. My single friends have not been fortunate enough to experience what I have, often through no fault of their own. They 'go through the motions' of a social life to stay a bit sane, but at 40, 45 and 50, clubs are not what it's about. They deal with the knowledge of growing older without 'continuity' of children, some extra help-if they're lucky when they're older, being able to have 'family conversations' with other adults. The odd moan helps them deal with pressures that you or I won't experience. As the saying goes 'The grass is greener on the other side', for those with and without children.

Your own washing and ironing - wow, you must be so proud, I do 4 lots of washing and ironing, work full time, etc....get a grip and stop complaining. At the end of the day you haven't got the responsibility that parents have.

well no, she sounds like a bit of a c*** I see your point in that circumstance

Angry at you, so a dad comes home from work and finds out his wife has took flight with his three kids and moved in with a new daddy and the only answer people like you can come up with is the old wear a condom statement

or move to a different country if you dont like our government. lets send you bitter twisted people off onto a boat into the direction of the bermuda triangle

why do men moan on and on on this subject (below) if you dont wanna get caught out, use a condom and make sure the woman is on the pill. if you dont you are just as guilty so accept youre also at fault and pay up! it takes two to tango!

and the below comment is ridiculous. I know lots of mums who were well miffed that they couldnt go to work coz schools were closed, and they had no option but to stay at home and look after their kids. thats just how life is when you have kids. what everyone is failing to remember on these boards is that we were all kids once! if someone wants to have kids its their right and choice, stop moaning!

Now the snow is here, parents want paid time off to look after their kids whos teachers can't be bothered to go into work. Don't worry parents us single people will run the companies well you lot stay at home doing nothing.

You, you are bloody well right. Christmas is not a time for children! It is a time for more hard-working tax payers to start doling out more money to scroungers who breed like rabbits!