And full-time mothers wouldn't even be eligible under the scheme - which wasn't fair.
Am I missing something here? Okay, maybe I'm biased because I had to resign from my job in order to have my family - there was no such thing as maternity leave then, paid or otherwise - but it seems ridiculous to me that someone who was not contributing via taxes towards the economy would even contemplate receiving government payments for the privilege of popping out a child, outside of the existing FTB A & B.