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Britain's generous welfare system 'has created benefits baby boom'
Daily Mail ^ | Dec 22, 2008 | Steve Doughty

Posted on 12/22/2008 8:38:42 AM PST by libh8er

Increases in social security benefits has produced a baby boom among poor families, Government-sponsored research showed today.

Tax credits and big increases in means-tested state payments have resulted in 45,000 extra babies a year - around one in 15 of all children born. And it found that young women with the least education stopped using contraception after the benefits were pushed up because they were trying to get pregnant. The findings mean that Gordon Brown's benefit reforms now stand alongside immigration as the main reason why the number of babies born in Britain is going up.

They also signal that that decisions of millions of people, especially those on low incomes, are powerfully influenced by the way the Government arranges the benefit system and taxation. Evidence of the impact of tax credits and other benefits on the birthrate was discovered by a team of researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Bristol University who were financed by the Government's Economic and Social Research Council.

They looked at information from state-run surveys carried out in the five years before and after then Chancellor Gordon Brown introduced tax credits in 1999. Tax credits boost the incomes of mothers who work more than 16 hours a week, and also pay generously towards day care for their children. Tax credits and increases in the means-tested benefit for the workless, Income Support, pushed up the incomes of couples with children in the poorest fifth of the population by more than 10 per cent.

The increase in benefits was 'unprecedented', the report said.

It found that the women more likely to have children were younger women living in couples.

'We find consistent evidence that the increase in government support coincided with a rise in births among the low-education group relative to the high-education ...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: babyboom; birthrate; britain; welfare
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1 posted on 12/22/2008 8:38:42 AM PST by libh8er
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45,000 Muslim babies!


2 posted on 12/22/2008 8:40:35 AM PST by MNDude
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Free money, crank up the liberal vote count, have a few on us.

Same thing happening in the USA. I note the turd worlders are always the ones walking down the local roads with 2-4 new Socialist Democrat voters in tow.


3 posted on 12/22/2008 8:40:44 AM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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‘We find consistent evidence that the increase in government support coincided with a rise in births among the low-education group relative to the high-education ...’
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This is how the socialist Brits make their “brown shirts”...


4 posted on 12/22/2008 8:41:02 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: MNDude

Demographics is destiny.

White folks are pretty much screwed all over the world, by their own doing.


5 posted on 12/22/2008 8:41:36 AM PST by Boiling Pots (The USA has become one huge pyramid scheme. Thanks George, John, Nancy and Harry.)
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And it found that young women with the least education stopped using contraception after the benefits were pushed up because they were trying to get pregnant.

Which shows that young women with the least education are still making rational, if not smart, decisions. Now, Government, apply this research logically and reduce the benefits. What is the likely outcome?

6 posted on 12/22/2008 8:43:50 AM PST by Tax-chick ("And the rum is for all your good vices.")
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To: libh8er

Survival of the lamest!


7 posted on 12/22/2008 8:48:33 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Women were treated like livestock by Mohammad, so Allah must want women treated like cows forever.)
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To: libh8er

Dysgenics.


8 posted on 12/22/2008 8:49:47 AM PST by M203M4 (Bill Kristol: Piltdown conservative)
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Whatever you subsidize, you get more of.

Survival of the unfittest.


9 posted on 12/22/2008 8:50:26 AM PST by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
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To: libh8er
From a story out of Ohio earlier this year...

People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child.

"A lot of people have told me, 'Why don't your daughter have a kid?'"


10 posted on 12/22/2008 8:51:03 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Boiling Pots
Demographics is destiny.

White folks are pretty much screwed all over the world, by their own doing.

I would say "by their own NOT-doing"...if you catch my drift...

11 posted on 12/22/2008 8:51:07 AM PST by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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The “guardian” keeps referring to women in a lower level of education group. Is this code for islamic women? oops, couldn’t be, the large percentage were living as cohabitant couples which as we all know is a no-no under sharia law.

Maybe the brits have a last gasp at reproducing at or beyond replacement rate.

“AMERICA ALONE” by Mark Steyn.... The prologue is a nightmare!


12 posted on 12/22/2008 8:53:51 AM PST by petro45acp (Hunkered down in occupied Virginia!)
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A lavish welfare state has dysgenic effects, encouraging the less capable to reproduce more, since society will pay for the raising of their children. Meanwhile, the more capable and responsible families have fewer children because so much of their income is taxed away and they think they cannot afford large families.

I think many social conservatives ignore the consequences of some of the policies they favor.


13 posted on 12/22/2008 8:54:04 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Happy Meals Gone Wild. Yikes!!!!


14 posted on 12/22/2008 8:57:01 AM PST by duckman (Jesus I trust in You. Mary take over)
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To: libh8er

Subsidize something and you get more of it.


15 posted on 12/22/2008 9:21:29 AM PST by CGTRWK
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The Liberal logic causes more poverty, just like in the US in the post-LBJ War on Poverty...government breeds more dependency and thus eternally solidifies the Democratic voting base.

Steal from the working to pay for the non-working, and employ politicians to enable those Marxist policies, the Liberal way (see DC, Chicago, LA, SF, NY).

Britain is just sharpening the sword that will end up slitting its own throat via PC suicide.


16 posted on 12/22/2008 10:20:45 AM PST by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: Boiling Pots

I was in the mall yesterday, you are very, very accurate in your assessment.

The third world breeds while Pacific Heights and the Upper West Side ponder how to make their childrens’ lives more difficult in getting into college or finding a job, all in the name of suicidal “diversity”.


17 posted on 12/22/2008 10:23:36 AM PST by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: MNDude

No, the vast majority of these will be natives, albeit not the class of natives we would neccessarily want to be reproducing on a large scale. More like 45,000 chav babies....


18 posted on 12/22/2008 10:32:36 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: reaganaut1
I think many social conservatives ignore the consequences of some of the policies they favor.

If I dare assume you are talking of abortion, then it wouldn't help because these are planned kids.

19 posted on 12/22/2008 10:47:15 AM PST by libh8er
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That’s what I heard - that the jihadis are moving to states with generous welfare benefits so that they can spend time procreating and plotting.


20 posted on 12/22/2008 10:49:33 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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