And the lone parents wont be removed for working now too. I honestly dont know why i got married. No wonder she has her kids in creche all day getting beauty treatments done to herself. She would want to go away and have a good scrub. Id say even rats are afraid to go into her home lol
I get what you mean in relation to twinsandme, but people who are parenting alone are given the chance to retain some payment while working because of the costs associated with raising children on one wage. One wage has to cover the cost of childcare/rent or mortgage and everything else and they don't have a partner to work around in terms of childcare, which offsets childcare costs, like some two parent households on one wage. The payment is still means tested so its not like they get a full payment from social and a huge wage too. It just means they won't automatically be disqualified once they reach that 400 and something amount wage as they previously were. Yes there are many people playing the system, who also have their rent and childcare paid and every other benefit going (same as people on the dole or any other payment) but there are many lone parents who barely make ends meet on one wage, and they would give anything to have a partner for the financial support and for the emotional support too.
They are not all just remaining single to claim a few euro off the social welfare, they are raising children by themselves without support and in many cases the "extra" benefits they get barely covers the cost of their grocery shopping, let alone beauty treatments. I know you weren't necessarily implying that all lone parents are like her but its twice now I've seen on the thread about why did I bother getting married, as if parenting alone is a lifestyle choice for many single parents in receipt of those payments, and then the comment above about lone parents not being removed if working. Sure there may be some who play the system, but just like with the dole where there are scroungers who milk the system, for every scrounger there a bunch of decent genuine people just trying their best.
(I didnt mean for that to sound like a rant, and it wasnt really directed at you, just generally. I have just seen a lot of comments about lone parents getting x,y and z, which the majority of the time is not much more than any regular dole payments (there is an option for anyone to claim their dole while working part time too) yet its the lone parents who are judged so harshly. Its not the absent parent who left them in that situation that is criticised, its the one left trying to make ends meet for the children and just get by. I am a single parent, I work full time, no social welfare, but its bloody hard and I dont begrudge anybody who needs some additional support in these circumstances cause I'd trade it all to just have a partner to help me when I come in from work and a loving father for my kids!)
, and one of her 1st snaps is to say she had 10 mins free to herself to get balloons, on their birthday she still can't stand to be around them 
Julie, im pretty sure they didnt, and wouldnt choose you to be thier mama.... THEY WERE LANDED WITH YOU, and i pity them! They are being dragged up with no manners to be little BRATS
