Friday, January 21, 2005

The Price Of Parenting

Just one unbelievable statistic from the new CPS report on state subsidy of single parenthood (or State bias against the two parent family, if you prefer).

A two-parent, one-earner family on average income (£24,000), with a mortgage and two young children is now just over a pound a week per
head better off than a lone-parent household entirely dependent on the state.


BBC report here.

UPDATE 22/1: Note that the figure is per head. So the 3-person lone parent household is 25% down in cash terms on the four person. Still a very good deal. Yesterday's Daily Express didn't seem to have quite grasped this, running a headline that implied the lone parent household received almost the same amount in total.



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