Single mothers need help

corinne vella

Jun 21st 2008, 23:59

It's interesting how the debate about single mothers, like the debate about abortion, is usually hijacked by men, who are long on opinion and short of experience in both matters. Single mothers are bleeding the country dry? Women have too many rights? Morality has gone to the dogs? Now where did we hear that nonsense before? Ah yes, Azzjoni Nazzjonali's pre-electoral pitch.

Andrew Harding

Jun 21st 2008, 11:52

No Mr Briffa you are wrong my friend, I do not live off government hand outs unlike many hundreds of thousands of my fellow country men and women, I am a self made man with a very successfull business based in Manchester my wife and I work very hard to get where we are and provide for ourselves and to support our life style, so I will not mind my own business, for 10 over years we have been coming to Malta between 5 - 6 times per year and each time we put a considerable amount of money in to your economy, this I believe entitles me to an opinion on one small aspect of your country which we know and love very well, next time you pass comment I suggest you at least either curb your tongue somewhat or try and get your facts more in order than you have done on this occasion, I repeat Malta please do not follow suite as the UK with regards to such social issues.

Graham Crocker

Jun 21st 2008, 00:41

I think single mothers need family's help more than government funds.
Single mothers can leave their children with their parents or friends, if the children don't have grandparents there is always foster care or orphanages.

If the single mother had no parents then she should have known the consequences are double those of whom have parents. If she couldn't care less to use contraceptives, why should we, the public care, unless they're family or friends?

A single mother has to struggle anyways with or without the money....its family support they need not Tax money....like its ever enough when you've got a kid.

And what about those who abuse?
what about learning consequences from other people?
what about the Dad who's desperately trying to convince his girlfriend that they can get married ?
He surely cannot use the "provision" argument, since the government plays Daddy now, yet the government is against divorce ( how contradictory).

Marisa Mifsud

Jun 20th 2008, 23:14

@ Clinton Caruana:

If all men on earth were like you, there would be no more single mothers,....or married ones for that matter,... I think there would be a serious lack of procreation!


M. Mifsud

A Daley

Jun 20th 2008, 21:14

@andrew harding - I repeat Malta do not follow the verminous example set by the UK - unquote.

Where do you get your statistics from man? The % of single mothers getting pregnant in Malta is actually higher then that of the UK. You are conveniently omitting the number of abortions by Maltese girls, my dear andrew.

During these last 15 years we have seen the complete erosion of the family unit as we knew it or as we were thought according to our faith.

joe briffa

Jun 20th 2008, 17:54

Afetr reading your comment Mr.Harding,i wish to ask you something,you have a way of living off the government i think,as otherwise you would not be sending letters on internet during working hours,secondly just mind your own business,or maybe you are a hermaphrodite

Clinton Caruana

Jun 20th 2008, 17:28

Women are given too many rights in this day and age! These are the consequences of giving too many rights!! Where is the obedience to God's ten commandments?? Can't women say 'NO' to sex before marriage and make their men follow this stance? I pity those women who are abused or raped!
I suggest reading the "Genesis" whereby it describes how God have created men and women and the way society should function!!
However, there's one thing I would like to congratulate them about! That is they had the courage NOT to abort their children!

Marisa Mifsud

Jun 20th 2008, 15:27

@ Andrew Harding:

Is a newborn baby expected to heat his milk, change his nappies and wait patiently for his mother to come back from work? Whoever has your opinion really does NOT have any idea of the 24 hour dedication a newborn baby needs, the kind of dedication that nobody other than its mother can give. In what is called "the 4th trimester" , newborns need constant physical contact with their mother. Many mothers also do not have "free babysitters" (grandparents) available on demand either. On the other hand, mothers with school-aged children can work, given the possibility of having part-time/flexible hours.
M. Mifsud.

Renald Galea

Jun 20th 2008, 13:32

II would have thought that GOL, after crusading against the right of a woman to procure a legal abortion, would have got its own house in order and provide for otherwise-unwanted babies.
GOL has been very insistent and persistent in pestering people to subscribe to its fundamentalist doctrine. It has successfully denied Maltese women from responsibly aborting any foetus they do not desire to give birth to. A woman has the responsibility of ensuring that any baby she brings to light should have a decent upbringing. Like any interference, GOL’s denying abortion, merely sends conflicting messages and gives rise to financial and emotional hardship to women and deprivation to their offspring.

Andrew Harding

Jun 20th 2008, 11:28

Why do these people require charity ?, are they not able to get out of bed to earn money to support there off spring ?, please dear Malta keep your sense of morals do not go down the same road as the morally inept UK where single mothers proliferate in there many thousands, these people often just get pregnant in order to dodge work and live off the state free of charge and out of the pockets of the hard working majority, if these kind of people can't support there own children then maybe they shouldn't be having them in the first place, I repeat Malta do not follow the verminous example set by the UK.