Good for you, Juanita. Perhaps all single women of child-bearing age (except for the rich of course) could be locked up in vast camps with an all married female staff of guards. Men could then make appointments to inspect the inmates with a view to choosing wives. Any woman so chosen who later finds herself without her husband (regardless of the reason) would be returned to the camp and any children she had would be fostered out to 'deserving' married couples. This would solve so many problems: no more single mothers on pensions, heaps of jobs for men, lots of children for adoption, good obedient wives too afraid to be anything else........Ahh! the male version of paradise!

Withdrawing welfare is such a concern to me.

How will we be able to afford the grog that fuels the alcoholic degradation of the nation?

I suppose though, with the decrease in our drunken stupors, we'll actually have some idea who the fathers of our children are.

I am a single mother of a 7 year old. Last year I returned to work after seperation. As most people in my situation, separation and the ensuing emotional and financial hardship can take a long time to gain control of. From the time separated I was unable to get regular income support from my childs father. I had to move out of the family home and we rented it. The rent did not cover the repayments. My partner did not help even though we were joint owners. Over the past 3 years I have borrowed, racked up credit card payments, tried to sell the property and this has failed. When I went back to work I earnt a wage, but I was still losing around $600 a week trying to keep up with the repayments. While I recieved family payments I contacted centrelink and told them of my new job. I also told them that my taxable income would be around 28k for the year, but in actual fact it is negative because of the losses I have made. I want to know if anyone has experience or knowledge on how centrelink deems income for single parenting payment. Is it an annual amount that is worked out fortnightly - or is it the taxable income - I am just very confused as I have been hit by centrelink for trying to decieve them on income though I am just very confused by what the legal requirements of income actually are. Some sites say annual, some say fortnightly, others say adjusted. Can anyone help?

Thanks
Tania2