Where you come from is not a choice anyone gets to make. Where you go is. Your “min qiegh in-Nigret tar-Rabat to be more specific.” speaks volumes on how far you’ve come in life I’m afraid. That snobbish self justification gets you nowhere and belies the intrinsic insecurity goading the ‘i’m better than them’ outlook which in reality, seeing as it’s wholly based on geographical location of birth, is far from being an opinion steeped in any sort of discerning wit or wisdom. You are the product of a part failure (i don’t know enough about you to feel qualified to comment further) of your raising on the part of your parents, or perhaps your upbringing caused you to have peers which influenced you in a rather distasteful manner. Luckily though, it gives you the unwavering expectation that you can loftily talk down on people because of where they are from, rather than what they do with themselves. I take my hat off to you sir/madam.

About this free childcare, my daughter sent her son to a government childcare centre and till today I can say she pays. So where is it free?

We both do what we needs to be done though the line was drawn at breastfeeding.

We both work, both do the school runs, and both try to spend time with the children.

The Muscat family are not a modern family at all but one straight out of the ’50s except that Mrs Muscat is pushy as opposed to demure.

MIn qiegh in-Nigret tar-Rabat to be more specific.

Not to mention the whole thing is hypocritical and only there to get votes in the first place.

I think her contempt for the Church, its institutions and those who man them and its teachings have already been shown time and time again.

A woman who does not want, or cannot, get out of the house and work will not really benefit from this. I hardly think anyone who plans to stay at home with the children would suddenly change their mind.

However, her implication is even worse in my opinion because she seems to be referring to the standard situation of children being born in wedlock and with the father being the breadwinner.

There is no mention of the help to be provided to single mothers who obviously have to work full time (yes reduced hours are technically available but if you want to make ends meet it is not feasible).

Whether we (single mothers) like it or not, we have “to get out of the house and work”. We do not do it simply because we’re bored and need something “biex taljiena”.

We do it because we have children to raise on our own. The extent of their anti-liberalism is such that growing sections of our community are not even included in the equation.

And before I start hearing about all the social benefits available, I pay taxes and I get a pittance in children’s allowance because the thresholds are utterly ridiculous. So, please, spare me.

All this pretence. For what exactly?

“qiegh ir-Rabat” phrase totally uncalled for, but otherwise agreed!