Child support grant is a grant that is paid by government to mothers who are unemployed and can’t afford to feed their children. It’s usually earned by girls who fall pregnant at an early age.
•Some mothers cannot afford to feed their children usually as a result of unemployment: Therefore the grant can assist them.
•It assists single mothers who are left abandoned by fathers of their children since there are fathers who abandon their children .
•It reduces number of babies who are abandoned and killed by their parents. Many mothers kill their new born babies as a result of poverty and not wanting to take responsibility of their babies.
•It fuels teenage pregnancy as you can see that teenage pregnancy has increased dramatically. Teenagers don’t abstain from sex or have a protected sex because they know that government will assist them.
•It increases spread of HIV as teenagers don’t abstain from sex and have protected sex: therefore they have many changes of being infected with HIV.
•It increases government spending and reduces GDP because government has to spend millions on child support grant.
•A country can be overpopulated. The more number of babies are born the more population increases.