How do you measure wealth? Income by family or income by individual?

Does the government treat the wealth of (a) one family where the husband earns £50,000 a year and the wife is at home with the children the same as (b) one family where each earns £25,000 a year, with the children ?

In this article it would suggest they are not treated the same when it comes to determining child benefit.

Is this government discouraging mothers from wanting to be with their children rather than working?
Is this government effectively encouraging more people to be slaves to GDP?

I would think that if there are those families whose mothers look after their children, some such mothers may look for work when the child benefits are cut, but many I think will just have no alternative but to cut their cloth.

We cannot serve God and mammon.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258783/Cuts-child-benefit-hit-working-families-poor-half-society-well.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9786278/Fury-of-stay-at-home-mums-snubbed-by-Coalition-over-childcare-tax-allowance-and-child-benefit-changes.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/9788008/The-message-of-this-withdrawal-of-child-benefit-is-that-motherhood-in-itself-is-not-worth-supporting.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2259274/But-pick-mothers-stay-home.html