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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

Most families rely on two incomes to make ends meet, and when a woman earns less, we put working families at a huge disadvantage.

Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.

Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it's so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they're going to vote.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.