Child poverty

Good points MOnica. We recently had a friend in his early forties killed in an accident. His wife is left with three children, one with particular needs, he had life insurance so immediate financial anxieties lessened slightly. People who lack the knowledge or money to insure are left bereaved and penniless. Blame is an easy way to dismiss

wintersday

If people cant afford to look after their children, they shouldnt have them in the first place.

If 'people' sat down with a calculator to calculate the cost of raising just one child over the next 16 years and, at the same time, attempted to forecast the economic climate (something over which they have no control) covering the same period together with crystal-ball-gazing into the events that might or might not happen to them personally; as Miss Adventure points out - this forum would be empty.

Having children is time-limited, there is a cut-off point - it's not something you can put on the to-do list once you are very-definitely financially stable; in fact unless you are fairly wealthy, you will always be susceptible to changing economic forces... maybe we should only allow wealthy couples to have children, eh?

MissAdventure

I've never seen anyone smoking whilst being interviewed.

Some people just love a bit of poverty porn 🤷‍♀️

M0nica

We will never abolish child poverty, or poverty because if there is a spread of incomes, those in the bottom group, will always be poorer than the rest.

Think back 100 years and how poverty presented itself then. benefits were almost non-existent. Help was not available until you had sold everything you possessed. There were no food banks, no free medecine, help with rent, 1 in 10 children died before they were 5, compared with 4 in a thousand now, mots of those list children would come from impoverished homes.
Think of all the help and support impoverished families get now.

I am not saying that poor people should not be be helped but abolishing poverty is impossible, the poor will always be with us, they will merely be less poor than in previous generations.

This is true.
Fortunately there is help now.

M0nica

Think back 100 years and how poverty presented itself then.

I've seen photo's of children - usually in groups - from the 1800s... all with bare feet and torn clothing, often over-sized clothing...

Things have definitely improved here.