One out of every 10 children is born on to an existing benefit. One in five babies is living in benefit-led households by their first babies. This is not helping our poverty problem if we are continuing to have children being born in these houses. These children face a bleaker future than children born to parents in work. They face worse outcomes on nearly every social indicator. We think that those who select to continue to rear children while receiving a benefit should be considering the welfare of their children first and foremost. ACT has a policy that puts the welfare of the child at the front and centre, introducing the electronic income management card, which would help to ensure Government benefits are supporting the family in the right places at the right times. We can't afford to keep going down having more children stuck in this poverty gap, not being able to afford the basic needs, if people are continuing to have children while they're on this benefit. 