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A talk like this to a son is as important as the bird and bees talk, if not more so.
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Exactly what I plan to do. Isn't it ashame? And if you really think about all the ways our government is trying (haha!) to make things better, they are really doing the opposite affect. I read the following article today:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/06/14/dl1402.xml

In particular, read this part:

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The figures are stark and astonishing: because of the huge bias in favour of single parenthood that prevails in the tax credit system, a single mother with two children under the age of 11 who works 16 hours a week on the minimum wage, receives, largely thanks to tax credits, an income of Ł487.

A two-parent family, on the other hand, also with two children under 11, in which either one or both partners works for the minimum wage, would have to put in a total of 116 hours a week to take home the same income.
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