Free-Loaders Or Entitled?
Depends, one can accurately surmise, on whom one asks that question of. If the question is directed toward you and you happen to be the newly-blessed parents of twins or other multiple-birth quantifiers then you might just happen to feel it's a dandy idea that each of the parents involved in the happy occasion that has resulted in a doubling and more of their family size, should be rewarded with two paid parental leaves.
One for each parent, one for each child.
What might happen with triplets or quintuplets if we simply prolong taxpayers' agony, is double- or triple-leave for each parent. Why work outside the home to earn one's daily bread when the work associated with raising the children you have spirited into being should qualify you - according to the reckoning of a newly-minted pair of parents with their newborn twins in Halifax contesting the current EI rules on parental leave - to public largesse?
They are busy, very busy, Darek and Alexa Desaulniers, with their Yves and Cosette born mid-January. And they feel entitled to double-doubles. This is an entitled age, when people appear to feel that they qualify for any and every government initiative to enhance peoples' lives. There was a time - when Darek and Alexa's grandparents gave birth to Darek and Alexa's parents - when people took responsibility for themselves.
The care of their offspring was their personal business, their personal responsibility and theirs alone. Of course caring offers of assistance from their relatives was often gratefully accepted. But this is a busy world we live in and people are likely far less generous in their offers of practical assistance, even within families, than of yore. But one doubts that proud grandparents would even now hesitate to offer assistance.
Still, parents like the Desaulniers feel that it is society as a whole that should feel obligated to be responsible for their personal well-being, standing ready and willing to offer their own hard-earned tax-funding to afford a more relaxed manner of living for two new, apparently overwhelmed parents. Who can blame them? Most people will grab whatever is offered, like found treasure.
And this couple appears to be emulating an earlier, successful claim by an Ottawa couple who last year succeeded in having EI benefits awarded them for full parental leaves after having twin girls. Each parent was able to claim 35 weeks of parental benefits for one newborn child.
Since when was it required that the ordinary taxpayer accept that such elaborate tax-funded benefits become statutory?
The Canada Employment Insurance Commission which is appealing the decision, should point out that having a child is a personal choice; raising that child is a personal obligation. One the public purse need not defray.
One for each parent, one for each child.
What might happen with triplets or quintuplets if we simply prolong taxpayers' agony, is double- or triple-leave for each parent. Why work outside the home to earn one's daily bread when the work associated with raising the children you have spirited into being should qualify you - according to the reckoning of a newly-minted pair of parents with their newborn twins in Halifax contesting the current EI rules on parental leave - to public largesse?
They are busy, very busy, Darek and Alexa Desaulniers, with their Yves and Cosette born mid-January. And they feel entitled to double-doubles. This is an entitled age, when people appear to feel that they qualify for any and every government initiative to enhance peoples' lives. There was a time - when Darek and Alexa's grandparents gave birth to Darek and Alexa's parents - when people took responsibility for themselves.
The care of their offspring was their personal business, their personal responsibility and theirs alone. Of course caring offers of assistance from their relatives was often gratefully accepted. But this is a busy world we live in and people are likely far less generous in their offers of practical assistance, even within families, than of yore. But one doubts that proud grandparents would even now hesitate to offer assistance.
Still, parents like the Desaulniers feel that it is society as a whole that should feel obligated to be responsible for their personal well-being, standing ready and willing to offer their own hard-earned tax-funding to afford a more relaxed manner of living for two new, apparently overwhelmed parents. Who can blame them? Most people will grab whatever is offered, like found treasure.
And this couple appears to be emulating an earlier, successful claim by an Ottawa couple who last year succeeded in having EI benefits awarded them for full parental leaves after having twin girls. Each parent was able to claim 35 weeks of parental benefits for one newborn child.
Since when was it required that the ordinary taxpayer accept that such elaborate tax-funded benefits become statutory?
The Canada Employment Insurance Commission which is appealing the decision, should point out that having a child is a personal choice; raising that child is a personal obligation. One the public purse need not defray.
posted by Pieface @ 6:31 PM
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