Why should pensioners pay for other people’s children?

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Rather than remove the two-child benefit cap, perhaps child support should first be means-tested (PA)

As a 75-year-old pensioner on an income below the accepted poverty line, I object to Andrew Grice’s suggestion that the two-child benefit cap should be removed unilaterally (“This will be the first Labour backbench rebellion – and Starmer’s first U-turn”, Monday 24 June).

We live in a society where certain women admit to having five children by five different fathers. Why should everyone be obliged to pay her for the privilege?

There is also a cultural aspect to having many children so that they will look after their parents in later life. But, again, why should pensioners like myself be forced to pay for it?