Anything for the weekend Sir?

[accymel]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

No you have to get to the root of the problem. Everyone knows that if it wasn't for single parents there wouldn't be any teenage yobs on the streets.

They should sterilise everyone from birth just in case they ever grow up and become a single parent because it might turn out they choose some selfish person to have children with who might leave them and make them single parents.

They should also track down all the absent parents who don't contribute to their childrens lives and give them half the child benefit to spend in the pub so they don't feel left out.

Tell me about it They gave me so much pressure at the jobcentre but notice they didnt push whether they could persue maintenance My X aas many others get away with it scot free & those of us that truelly love our kids to care for them get left lumbered high & dry & we are the ones labelled bad people!!!!

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by grego

Is that tongue in cheek Dave?
I disagree you cant blame the yobs on single parents, its lack of discipline both at home and at school which happens even in 2 parent families.

Yes it was tongue in cheek

I'm afraid to say I'm a disgrace to the single parent movement. I work and my daughter is not a yobbo, I'm a freak

[accymel]

Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

Every year the government drags this subject out of the hat, notices go out calling for all those on long term sick to be hauled in for a medical, what you have to remember there are some genuine cases who cannot work, or are unemployable because of company insurance rules. The skyvers will be queing up at Welfare Rights to get their forms filled in and appeals prepared, there will also be an epidemic of walking sticks disease, but all those on the 'sick' are tarred with the same brush and this is unfair.

True point! My youngest has a congential condition which requires regular hospital appointments & is going for an operation soon & will mean 2 mnths recovery so means i will have to be main carer, i've not claimed DLA cos of all the crap of the benefit system, seems i would have to claim it but still means that as only parent i will still have to work & be home carer, now tell me which employer is going to allow least once a month to once a week visits to hospital & be off work 2 mnths because i have to?!?

Seems that no wonder this country is going to pop cos even the government is now saying working is more important than child welfare!!! There are many young layabouts that CAN get a job & work no problems but are too damn lazy to do it cos they's rather be pi**ed or drugged up!!

[jambutty]

Has anyone, I wonder, looked at the issue from the EMPLOYERS’s perspective?

If you were an employer would you want one of those yobs working for you and messing up your business?

[accymel]

This also makes interesting reading from employers perspective single parents are 49% less likely to get a job [the top score]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/28022007/14...nequality.html