Who should be responsible for raising young children?

Question

Help with a "development class" study?
I'm doing a survey and am looking for a few people to state their opinions to the following questions: 1. Who should be responsible for raising young children and why?

2. Should the government provide money and resources to low-income families with young children? If so, should the money come from tax dollars, or from some other source(s)?

Also please state your age, M/F, marriage status, and whether you have children. Also your nationality if other than resident of US
Thanks

Answer 1

1) Both parents should take an equal share of the work, and they should be the primary caregivers.

2) Yes, it should. Little kids are a big drain and you can't say lower-income families must be celibate. The money should come from tax dollars; a society must support all of its members.

14, F, single, no. My parents (53, M, married, yes and 51, F, married, yes) think the same way.

Answer 2

1) The Parents of course.

2)Government? Get real. We are the Government. Why should we pay for a bunch of low life welfare sponges to reproduce little sponges and keep sucking money out of our hard earned paychecks? Think about it for just one second and you'll agree. This paper you're working on may get you a Grade of some sort...right!? Well the slacker right next to you decides that they don't want to work very hard on their paper so they do what they do best...SLACK. When it's time to hand in the paper the teacher says hey, let's let all the low life slackers slide on this one by pooling everyone grades, and that way the flunkies can stay in class right along with all you hard working students. But oh by the way, the Grade point average of all you top students will have to go down some to get this done....How would you feel about that? Not very good I'm sure, and rightfully so. Why should someone that doesn't put in any efforts get to slide? The system is very broken and letting lazy people slide is not the answer. The Bible says if a man doesn't work then he shouldn't eat. I bet you didn't know that! The reason is, that if a man get hungry enough, he'll get off his lazy butt and do something positive about his hunger. If two people can't afford to care of the baby they want to bring into this world then maybe they shoudn't be making one!?

Never give Tax money to these people, they don't deserve it. Welfare is the biggest crime ever inflicted on any tax payer base. You may not like this answer but it's true.

I'm 48 married with three grow kids and a wonderful Grandaughter.

Answer 3

Question 1: The mother should be responsible for raising the children. The father should be the one working.

Question 2: Yes the government should provide money and resources (like a job) to low income families with children. It should come from tax dollars. No teens who go out and get knocked up should be denied welfare.

19, female, married, no kids yet. Saudi Arabia

Answer 4

The parent of the children should be responsible for raising the child. I believe that it a person that parents a child can't not raise it and teach it right from wrong and treat them with kindness, then they should let some one WHO can do those things raise that child as there own.
I know that at times it's hard for parents to afford everything when they don't make much money and maybe they should receive help for a short period but I do not believe that I should have to help pay to support other peoples children. I was a single Mom of 3 that lost there father to a drunk driver when the oldest was 12 it was a struggle for us to make ends meet but I make 10 a month to much to receive and kind of benefits. Had I have been like my neighbor who did not work and never married the father of her children I could have live very good on state support. But yet my tax dollars were going to help her out.
Female - 48- widow - 3 children and US

Hope this helps with your class.

Answer 5

I think the parents should be responsible for raising their children. A tax break from the government I think is a great idea since raising children is expensive.Parent(s) should be given a financial break.I am a single parent(father) 35 yrs old that takes care of my 5 year old daughter on my own.I live in Canada and get about $200 a month to help with her expenses. I also get a $1500 tax credit / year on my income tax return.With many western countries having less children the government should encourage couples to have more children to help in the future work force and financial breaks for these people should be there since they have more expenses than single people.

Answer 6

1. the parents but sometimes they need hel from there mother and father as well. Most people when they become parents dont know everything and they need someone to talk to aobut quesions and problems.
2. I think that the goverment should help low income families but also keep a cap on children and things. I see all these people living in the sac area that are on food stamps and welfare and they have all these nice things and there kids are not taken care of. Then I see people like my inlaws that are currently raising there grand kids and can not get help because the state says they make to much. They both for for a community collge so they do not get paid for the summer and have to take care of a 5 year old and a 2 year old with summer savings,

3 i am 24 femake and married with no children and working on having one in the nex few years.

Answer 7

The Nanny! My Parents were very socially engaged people. We had a Nanny who cared for us when we were very young. Later we were sent to the best boarding schools in the country. Mother says it was for the best. Adults simply do not have anything to discuss with children. When we were of the proper age and education we were made fit for proper society. As for this nonsense about the Government providing funding for the welfare of children, well the way I see it is that having a child comes with responibilities. If the burden of responsibility is kept with the people involved it is for the best. They WILL find a way to provide or they will perish, and that is their own fault for being delinquent parents. At that time the abandoned child is then the responsibility of the State. This is why we pay taxes, and to my perspective this is as far as the generosity of the State should be extended.

Answer 8

1. Parents should be responsible for raising young children, because the nuclear family structure has been proven time and again, and throughout history, as the core essential structure that provides a foundation upon which to build society. Every occasion of the fall of a great society is preceded by the destruction of the family structure.

2. While government aid should be available, programs for low-income families should be more tightly administered and rules more strongly enforced - where there is money, there will be greed and loopholes which need to be closed to assure that the money is going where intended - not to deadbeat dads, not to homes where the children are neglected and one parent is off buying drugs or booze, etc.

45 years old, M, separated, two teenage sons, US resident.

Answer 9

i think the parents should b e responsible of their children. i was a single mother who was on welfare with one kid for 1 year and the help was wonderful but i think that too many people are cheating the system. what i mean is that i had a child i was abandoned by the father got on welfare got back on my feet and learned my lesson. some people are on welfare and keep having more kids and getting ore welfare it is unfare. also now i am on the other side. I am married and have two kids now. had a job for 4 years which i lost due to pregnancy. husband works for smith and wesson. he works hard for us and without me working, looking though , we are barely surviving. all of our bills are past due, its hard to put food on the table, and we made so much money supossedly that we arent eligible for the earned income credit for our children, but yet people on welfare or who work less and put in less tax dollars do get the earned income creit. how is that earned if they barely worked. so we have to bust our *** and in the end we give our money to other peoples children while ours still suffer. not fair. it should not come from our taxes. and they should reconsider what they consider low income families because we are not eligible for any form of assistance, for example my electric was to be shut of due to nonpayment and they have a shutoff protection for households with infants under 1 my baby is 2 months and because my husband makes 45000 GROSS income we are not eligible for that protection. he doesnt take home that much so how can they count it like that. the taxes go to others. what the f***

Answer 10

I am 38, female, divorced with no children and I am caucasion. I have three different degrees in human services, counseling, and sociology.

I think that too many people are having children that shouldn't be. I worked with troubled adolescents for years as a mental health counselor and the number one cause of these kid's behavior is their upbringing. Which lead me to see that too many people are popping out kids that shouldn't be having any kids at all.

I think that the government should provide services to low income families with young children but I also think that there need to be stronger guidelines for this help. I live in Oregon and too many times I see people riding the system and popping out kids to stay on the system. I have no problem having my tax dollars assist people in getting their lives together but I do have a problem helping people ride the system.

I also think we should have programs set up making the father of the children participate in some way, teaching them family values and supporting them in staying in the lives of their children.

In my state we also use lottery dollars for education so I like that idea as well. We also have many Indian casinos in our state so I think a portion of that money should go to that enthnic group and in helping their low income families which is a lot.