If she can't afford a third child, why should you foot the bill?
When William Beveridge created the blueprint for the modern welfare state in his 1942 report, he was clear that the new system should be a social contract between the citizen and the State.
For the first time in history, the State had a duty to provide a minimum standard of living beyond which no citizen could fall. In return,
all citizens had a responsibility to ensure that welfare was a last resort, a safety net against ‘unavoidable interruption’ of income - not a lifestyle choice.
‘Something for something’ was a founding principle of the welfare state. But, somewhere along the line, the safety net became a straitjacket, trapping hundreds of thousands in long-term dependency.
Throughout the boom years, the number of people claiming an out-of-work benefit never dropped below four million, while welfare spending on working-age households rose by about 40 per cent in real terms.
During the same period, the number of households in which no one had ever worked almost doubled.
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