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Originally Posted by ChinookDriver  You get the love and affection from your children. You get the great feeling of satisfaction of doing your job of raising a kid properly after you decided to have one.
Once the child actually is a productive member of society, they get paid for their skills. Perhaps they'll take care of you one day - who knows.
I've never known a parent ever who wanted the government to pay them for doing their biological job.
Understood - this is all hypothetical. I understand you're not completely serious.
It's perfectly fair. It is a biological and moral imperative for parents to raise their children. You're not doing anyone a favor - you're raising your children just like the billions before you.
Come on now - that's not what she was saying and you know it. This comparison makes no sense.
Way more important than WIC and welfare, our tax dollars fund the schools. So in a way, you already get paid quite a bit in the form of a free education for your children.
As worthless as social security will become, we've still all paid into that too. No matter what, the person who takes care of us when we're 80 won't be doing so out of the goodness of their hearts, or because you raised them right, it will be because it is their job and they are being paid to do so.
Again, you're making an illogical comparison here. No one is arguing existing programs - wic and welfare weren't discussed or critiqued, and they aren't a fair comparison to your idea of getting paid for raising your own children. |
So if you get even an ounce of satisfaction from your job, you shouldn't get paid? I'm sure there's days that you felt a huge amount of satisfaction for a job well done... I don't think you'd take a pay cut for it! That makes no sense!
I'm not doing anyone a favor? Let "the system" raise my kids and we'll see about that when you're paying for their imprisonment.
I can see how you'd see my job as holding no value to you. But you're not thinking longterm. Typically mothers like myself who are loving, caring, and nuturing to our children do not raise kids who end up in jail (where you'll be paying for them again - along with a free college education I might add). The money you're putting into a SEVERELY flawed welfare system is paying for some mothers who are crack heads and abuse the system. Whose kids will most likely grow up incarcerated or back in to the welfare system. Not ALL of course. There's plenty of people who legitimately need those services, but the system is severly flawed and abused and you know it. Wouldn't you rather have some of your tax dollars go to children who will most likely grow up to be good citizens?
Anyway, i'm done debating this point. It's pointless anyway since you'll never have to worry it. Society will never see the value in mothers who stay at home. That's fine by me, life's not always fair.