Welfare ‘careerists’

SO Mary Hanafin proposes cutting lone parent allowances once a child reaches 13 years. If people cannot regulate their own reproduction, this should not be the state’s problem.

I would not pay any lone mother a penny until fathers are forced to make contributions to their children’s welfare. We put such women into Magdalene laundries once. We are now paying them to become social welfare careerists.

Dr Florence Craven