The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63553 Message #1033245
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
10-Oct-03 - 01:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Benefits/Welfare.
Subject: RE: BS: Benefits/Welfare.
"...what would have been the necessity to get off of it?" Necessity isn't the only thing that decides what people do. A society where it did would be essentially, I suggest, a slave society.
The bottom line is ensuring that there is a decent life for the children as well as the mother. In some cases that is going to be best provided by her staying home, and in some by her going out to fulltime work or education, ánd in others some combination. And the person who is in a best position to make that decision is likely going to be the mother herself.