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Could we be storing up problems for the future?

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OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 1 Nov 2014 08:41

Although I am not against immigration, I do agree that steps need to be taken to stop individuals just coming here to take advantage of our benefit and health systems.

If the survey below was a reasonable reflection of the trend throughout the UK, could the current calls to curb immigration, result in problems for our economy at some point in the future - due to a shortage of people available to fill the vacancies in the various industries & services that make up our economy.

According to the report in The Guardian, a survey of more than 2,500 parents shows - that couples are limiting their families to just one child because of the financial cost.

More than a third of families with one child said they would love to have more, but “life is too expensive” despite more than 88% having a partner who works full-time, or who works part-time and shares childcare.

Even those earning considerably more than the average gross income for two adults and one child, £35,600, and those earning more than the average for two adults and two children, £44,200, have decided that the cost of having more than one child is unsustainable.

If the birthrate is falling do you think by cutting immigration - we could be storing up problems for the future?

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

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