After SSM, what next?

The Corinthian

Sleepy wrote: »

To this end we have a number of options to encourage them not to procreate rather than going for the nuclear options above

Personally, I'd lace Carrols cigarettes with contraceptive chemicals.

Seriously though, I don't think you're going to be able to sell many of that list, presuming that any of those measures would even prove effective.

The solution in reality is probably both carrot and stick; affordable child care and abandonment of this daft notion that children should have a full time parent at home.

The first steps were taken when single parents lost their single parent status upon their oldest child reaching 14 (and now down to 7, I believe). That we had no problem with someone being a full-time parent to a twenty-year old college student, up until recently, was surreal and while, unsurprisingly, there was some opposition to this from some single parents, it's was a good step forward.

However, that alone won't cut it as there's little (short to medium term) point in getting a job when after childcare you could be even worse off than before. And this too has to be dealt with, ideally seeking to reallocate funds previously supporting single parents to stay at home, to instead support them to get out of it.

This would very quickly dissuade the irresponsible single parents from using a system that is no longer as profitable as it once was.

Plenty of other countries do this already, with Kindergarten programs through to 8am school start times and after school programmes. Main problem I would see in Ireland is implementing it without being raped by the teachers' unions and the fact that even where single parents seen more as jobseekers, it's not as if we do a very good job at getting the more work-shy jobseekers into employment.

thee glitz

No rush to change abortion in the Constitution - Taoiseach

Mr Kenny said there would be no such thing during the lifetime of the current government, which expires at latest in early April 2016.

No Voter And Proud

Good good.
One thing we can thank Enda for. A fellow connaught pro lifer!

thee glitz

No Voter And Proud wrote: »

Good good.
One thing we can thank Enda for. A fellow connaught pro lifer!

He's a sensible fella. Or whoever told him to say that is.

Ash.J.Williams

it kinda does say politicians jobs are more important than the lives of others

thee glitz

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

it kinda does say politicians jobs are more important than the lives of others

How does it do that?

No Voter And Proud

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

it kinda does say politicians jobs are more important than the lives of others

More "jobs for the boys" - they have to make sure the future politicians are not aborted sure!

darkpagandeath

Why are we using SSM still ? that was pre ref it's just marriage now. Or are people trying to make it out as more important ?

thee glitz

No Voter And Proud wrote: »

More "jobs for the boys" - they have to make sure the future politicians are not aborted sure!

Ah ye, sure that's what they do. They got their referendum passed and a
lot of people were happy. I think it was a Labour pre-election promise.

The other referendum no-one spoke of was beat out the gate. It would have been
somewhat interesting if the premise was to lower the presidential candidate age to 30.

The government can be pleased with the weekend's results despite Carlow-Kilkenny by-election result.

No point in risking all that with another referendum.

TheLastMohican

keano_afc wrote: »

Polygamy. Its marriage equality for all!!

fleet_admiral wrote: »

And bigamy

There once was an old man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time,
When asked, "Why a third?"
He replied, "One's absurd!
And bigamy, Sir, is a crime!"

kylith

I've noticed that the Iona ads on Youtube have changed from "I'm totally not homophobic, but gay people shouldn't be allowed get married" to "I'm totally Pro-Choice. Women should have the choice to have a baby, or never have sex".