[Ammi]

..hmmm, I’m not sure whether I agree with that Alex...I know a lot of young people (females) and I don’t know any who feel their role in life is to be ‘maternal’ and have children..I’m not saying they won’t do that eventually but it’s not a priority for them at the end of their education and start of a career...and it may be true that females still don’t always have equal status in the workplace but in my experience that doesn’t stop them from trying to achieve something....I also know of females under 25yrs who have married but still intend to pursue their careers until such time that both partners decide the time is right to start a family...

..it may be that for this particular person that she had no qualifications etc and therefore felt that there wouldn’t be many opportunities out there for her...but the way the article depicts it, she didn’t even try to see..apprenticeships, college courses, alternative training etc.. but ‘opted’ or chose a life on benefits as opposed to it being something that found her, sort of thing...I think there is also a ‘social’ life to working ..meeting people, making friends etc, not just about the salary and the world is so overpopulated that having children as a solution to something seems extreme..but of course, the source of this story is The Sun newspaper, so sensationalism is their middle name as well.....