I agree that's it's hard on us taxpayers to be funding the idle. Is there a way we could insist that these women work? But there aren't many unskilled jobs out there, and they would need qualifications (funding again) I believe in USA there have been moves afoot to get people off Welfare. If (as some suggest) one merely stopped their Benefits, they'd sell drugs or turn to prostitution in order to fund their lifestyle. Many do this anyway, in addition to their Benefits cheque. Believe me, I've met dozens of these young women visiting their menfolk in prisons around the UK, towing little ones along. I've talked at length to them while waiting to be called to the Visits Room. (I did Prison Visiting for years) They have a strange (to me) view of life, and have never been correctly 'socialised'. They are a different type of person altogether to us workers, almost alien. But this thread is about population, not the workshy. I'm sorry if I've 'drifted'!