The Department for Work and Pensions has announced it is to cut the period of time women spend on being pregnant in the UK from 9 months to 4 months in an effort to save money.
The plans – which also include a pledge to reduce the time immigrants to the UK carry a child to as little as 3 months – are part of a package introduced by the coalition government designed to encourage women to spend less time being pregnant and more time at work.
In an interview with the BBC, the Work and Pensions Secretary Mr Iain Duncan Smith defended the proposals, saying women should be encouraging their babies to spend less time in gestation:
“Britain can no longer afford the luxury of babies being expected to be carried around doing nothing for substantial periods of time. For too long, especially under the previous Labour government, women were allowed to spend as long as 9 months being pregnant. It is clear that at a time of great austerity, something has to be done to tackle this feeling of entitlement by many women to long periods of time gestating children.“
The proposals come not long after shocking government figures revealed as many as 100% of 2-year olds in the UK have never been in training, education or work.
Feckless little wastrel's,should be out flogging matches or something.
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