- Target:
- Canadian Governments At All Levels
- Region:
- Canada
- Website:
- homemakerallowance.blogspot.com
Are we to promote working couples while leaving breadwinner and homemaker couples to fend for themselves? Or are we to support single-income couples while leaving working couples to fend for themselves? Promoting the one means marginalising the other.
This last forty years, we have promoted working couples while neglecting single-income couples. It should be the other way round.
The pension and benefit system we inherited from the Sixties assumes men as breadwinners and women as homemakers in single-income households. Men had a right to good jobs not as men but as breadwinners with wives to support; and women had a right to spousal benefits not as spouses but as homemakers supporting their husbands. If you're not a breadwinner, you have no right to a good job; and if you're not a homemaker, you have no right to spousal benefits. If working couples are entitled to neither, they should be getting neither. They should not be getting both!
Do you know? In Canada, right now, when a husband and wife each have government jobs (with dental plans, 50% coverage on elective dentistry) they can have the most expensive cosmetic dental surgery; and put half the cost on their own plan, and the other half on their spouse's plan.
By any reasonable standard, that is fraud! the principle being, Anyone with a benefit in their own right cannot repeat the benefit in someone else's right. And the same applies to survivor's pensions for working spouses. We pay for the allowance by cleaning up some of the double-dipping that's going on.
Marriage needs to be redefined as a breadwinner and homemaker partnership: either legally or administratively. The traditional definition of marriage as a spiritual union of husband and wife was only valid as an approximation.
Working couples are a turkey! They are not going to fly no matter how much support we give them. If we gave a fraction of the encouragement to breadwinner and homemaker couples that we give to working couples we might get off the ground.
Whereas good homes and viable communities depend on the unpaid work of homemakers, they should be rewarded with an allowance.
To pay for the allowance, survivor's pensions and other repeat benefits for working spouses will be eliminated.
Our aim is to facilitate breadwinner and homemaker marriages while leaving working couples to fend for themselves. Promoting the one means marginalising the other. At present, working couples are promoted while single-income couples are at a disadvantage. The order needs to be reversed.
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The A Homemaker Allowance will Re-Create Real Families petition to Canadian Governments At All Levels was written by clive cowlard and is in the category Family & Friends at GoPetition.