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 ...
45,000 Muslim babies!
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.
‘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”...
Demographics is destiny.
White folks are pretty much screwed all over the world, by their own doing.
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?
Survival of the lamest!
Dysgenics.
Whatever you subsidize, you get more of.
Survival of the unfittest.
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?'"
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...
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!
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.
Happy Meals Gone Wild. Yikes!!!!
Subsidize something and you get more of it.
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.
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”.
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....
If I dare assume you are talking of abortion, then it wouldn't help because these are planned kids.
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.
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