Pregnancy: £120 'Good' Food Grant

A 'fruit and veg' grant of £120 is proposed to improve the nutrition of unborn babies. It will be available to those at 7 months before the expected birth and works out at about £2 a day. The cost to administer this is unquantifiable, but certainly more than the cost of the grants. However, balanced with advice about giving up smoking and drinking after 7 months is absolutely pathetic. Smoking and drinking at any time during pregnancy is dangerous and should be the 'advice'. Making smoking illegal during pregnancy probably upsets the human rights lobbyists, but who speaks for the unborn?

Such a one-off payment should be made in tokens not cash, but this is likely to be considered demeaning. Forcing a method of how this money can be spent would not be a good idea either. Like forcing someone to 'take' the money. Possibly, a great deal of the available grants won't be collected since the promotion of such a scheme would need to be effective.

And how do the right people get to spend their £2 a day and in the intended way?

Or it's just another crude bribe.

If women want to have their babies, responsibility begins before the birth and continues throughout the life of the parent(s). Parents cannot be allowed to 'walk away' from responsibility. So, smoking and drinking should be outlawed during pregnancy. And during that time when actively attempting to become pregnant. The removal of responsibility from the individual to be taken over by government is the beginning of absolute control (by government). If the pregnancy is unwanted then tough. Responsibility is part of sex. The one cannot be separated from the other. Sex may be enjoyable, but biologically sex is for procreation purposes. That's not naïve. It's realistic. The drive to continue the existence of the human must have its rewards to ensure it works. Reward (dopamine) is part of the human psyche.