2007-08-15 03:34:48 · 5 answers · asked by meiling_7 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United Kingdom
Possibly, but if money is a consideration for people whether to have more children or not, then they shouldn't really have more. It should be for love and wanting to have more children, not for more money.
2007-08-15 04:18:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so ..
These days only the 'rich' (where one partner is earning over double the average wage and thus the other can give up work to look after the children) or the poor (who have no jobs and thus have nothing to loose) can afford children.
About the only thing that would encourage people to have more kids is a payment of approx £25,000 per year per child for 20 years ...
NB. Most working guys have (by now) worked out that if they have kids, and it all goes wrong, their partner gets the kids, the house, their wages and their pension ... this is NOT an incentive for working guys to have kids ...
2007-08-15 03:47:06 · answer #2 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose they would but why would you want to encourage people to have more children in the first place? Given that the UK has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe - I'm not sure I follow your logic.
2007-08-15 05:05:21 · answer #3 · answered by Sue C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt there could be a tax break big enough to cover the cost of raising a child, so not likely.
2007-08-15 08:44:14 · answer #4 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably.
2007-08-15 03:43:03 · answer #5 · answered by professorc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋