"...the exploitation of children to make the Prime Minister look good"

"The benefit system was originally about providing secure income for those genuinely unable to work. That inability to work did not include causing one's own incapacity or having dependent children.
    "It has since evolved to become a government tool for equalising incomes between the employed and unemployed, and advancing other ideological goals like the financial emancipation of the female parent from the male parent.... [I]t is [now] being used by the Prime Minister to achieve her primary goal of reducing child poverty.... [thereby] increasing [the] number of children reliant on benefits.
    "[Given] [the higher incidence of neglect and abuse for children growing up on a benefit, [t]he increase may even be described as the exploitation of children to make the Prime Minister look good."

~ Lindsay Mitchell, from her post 'The price of reducing poverty'