I don't really know what that means, tbh. If money could be safely cut from defence, I'd like it to go to the NHS, services for the elderly, more tax credits for low income families. It shouldn't come to pay me to care for my own child.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Then is motherhood not valuable at all? How is elderly and sick care valuable but not motherhood? Why would we pay for someone else to care for our children but we shouldn’t get paid to care for our own children?
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Replying to @GaiaRiot
Yes, of course it is. Because elderly and sick people cannot care for themselves. Because they're our children.We are responsible for them. Obviously, I am not talking about people who can't work and provide for their kids or who do but still need help. No money should come to me
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GaiaRiot
Do you feel we pay too much here in the UK? Legally we are allowed to take 52 weeks off work. Pay wise we get 90% of full pay for first 6 weeks and then statutory government pay of £140 a week for up to 39 weeks.
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Replying to @lizlozlizloz @GaiaRiot
We do? I just got 12 weeks pay. I think holding people's jobs for them is good and I think that a means-tested increase of benefits for mothers of babies also seems reasonable.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GaiaRiot
I don't know enough about how the economy works but I'm just not sure 'because I want to be with my baby 24/7' is a good enough reason to be paid not to work once recovered from birth.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I’m sorry, but your valuing paid work over traditionally women’s work is above all sexist. Funny that childcare providers get paid, but women somehow aren’t working when they stay home? How absurd.
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Replying to @GaiaRiot
They get paid by the parents of the children. Of course, we all do work at home. For our own benefit tho. I just cleaned my bathroom for me. No-one needs pay me for it, except my husband who shares his salary with me as well as the clean bathroom.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GaiaRiot
If we're going to go all traditional (let's not), the wife who does the housework and childcare gets paid by her husband who benefits from it. Not other people.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GaiaRiot
The trouble is, that a single income doesn’t often cover a family’s basic needs, even more so in America. Women there are forced to go back to work before the baby is even ready. If we had more child friendly work environments it’d be feasible to work soon after birth.
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Need something like tax credits for the most low-income families. I am fully behind supporting low-income families just not paying all women to care for their own babies.
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