The sad thing about these sort of posts is that they encourage judgement on all those who, through no fault of their own, find themselves needing to rely on the benefits system: marrried and man leaves, in a steady relationship and then become victims of DV, disabled or chronically sick etc. All in need of the sort of safety net that a decent society builds and that I support.
And I support that the OP's children have benefits bestowed on their family, because they are the innocent parties in this situation and I would not want them to suffer for the mistakes of their parent.
But - the original AMA is designed to foster resentment among those who behave responsibly, who are struggling financially, who have stopped at one child when they would have loved two .....
The cynic in me suspects this is a plant to ginger up responses from the far right and make the lives of those on benefits even more difficult by whipping up resentment, when the vast majority of claimants are in genuine un-asked for need.
But I have to commend the majority of posts on here as being measured and not rising to the bait, but simply expressing regret for their own hard-pressed situations and difficult things they have had to forego because of their sense of responsibility.
In my experience as someone working on the ground with many claimants, the vast majority are decent honest people who have had a raw deal in life and so I deprecate any attempt to push people in the direction of seeing all claimants in a negative light.