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"Mr President, we live in strange times. On the one hand there is high unemployment, and on the other the economic pressure to have two wage packets coming into each household. We ought to be making an effort to transfer at least part of that unemployment to homes and families, as we will have to finance it anyway. A woman running a household does not feel unemployed. Quite the opposite is the case, as she is busy 24 hours a day. The state of her hands is proof enough of that.
We are doing a very great disservice to women in charge of a household if we deem them to be unemployed. By contrast, an unemployed man feels frustrated, useless, worthless and defeated.
The commonest reason for poverty in a family is the father losing his job. Families living off a single wage tend to have a very modest lifestyle, but they do not feel poor. Their strong family life is their fortune. Fewer behavioural problems arise in families of this kind. A country that helps families living off a single wage, by providing tax relief or benefits for example, will need to spend less on nurseries, young offenders’ centres, prisons, old people’s homes and similar institutions. That country will also rejoice in more happy women, happy children and happy husbands."@en1
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