AIBU to think people shouldnt be getting money for having children?

[normality]

i know it is is controversal but i dont understand why some people feel the entitlement to get money for having children and aibu to think it should stop?

I think that if people want children then they should have them but they should not feel they are entitled for some kind of monetary hand out for having them

I especially feel like getting money for being pregnant like the sure start grant, maternity grant, healthy start vouchers ect should not happen because if you cant afford to have a child why should the goverment pay you to do this? what about the people who do not have any children and choose not to or can not why should they miss out on multiple grants and vouchers when they are paying more and more taxes to support the people who choose to have children and then choose not to work?

• i have a dd and although i wanted a large family i could not afford to have more than one child so stopped but never claimed any grants ect because i did not want to be paid for being pregnant as it was my choice

happy - but for a long time people did repetitive work without getting stressed and with much less than the statutory holidays now in place (28 days isn/t it?) Why is it that we can't do this anymore when all our forebears have worked much harder for less?

One of my gg grandparents worked in a mine in scotland. They could spend their wages in the village shop/pub. Maybe they DID get stressed, I am sure they did. Their lives were shit. Nothing should be that bad any more.

But the important difference is they would have just starved if they opted out. We have the "choice" to claim tax payers money instead.