What do you think should be done about food poverty?

ninny, you can. I think others, including jingl, are too.

Jinglbellsfrocks I am pleased and happy with how my children and grandchildren have turned out also, why can't we be pleased with our parenting skills.

Can I please refer you all to my post of Thu 23-Jan-14 17:34:04.

Haven't a clue what sort of a parent you were durhamjen.

Can't be bothered to read anymore. And will try very hard to not post any more on the thread. (It wasn't me who turned it into all about me again )

Thanks Ana, but you are on a losing streak with this lot.

Glass, your comment at 21.08, I know that Hexham has a food bank. That's what I found appalling, that an area considered so wealthy, like Morpeth, should have a food bank. One of my husband's cousins lives in Hexham - the wealthier end of the spectrum.
Jingle I never even knew my son smoked until I found out it was cannabis. He was 18. He stopped taking drugs when he watched a friend come off heroin. Swears he never tried it, and we believed him. He's a secondary teacher now, and can always tell when one of his pupils has tried cannabis. Does that make us parents who do not love our children?

I agree with absent. I too find it irritating when people make sweeping generalisations about matters that are complex and which don't have easy answers.

Surely it is not that difficult to understand that if you are contributing to a site containing a large number of people, many of whom will have, or will have had, some personal or family experience of: unemployment, debt, problems with children, alcoholism/substance abuse, etc. etc., you should have some very firm evidence to support the contention that such problems are, in effect, their own fault.

I'm off to bed too. What a plonker you can be Absent

I will, thanks. You may disagree with a poster, absent, but to dismiss their views as 'wanton stupidity' is downright rude.

Is that to me? absent

I should have thought it was blatantly obvious. However, I suppose it depends on your definition. Perhaps some people consider that continuously making assertions that contradict every known piece of evidence is a sign of intelligent discussion. Please yourself.

I think it's time I went to bed. Had a very difficult tribunal with an obviously previously undiagnosed psychotic schizophrenic and a judge who wanted to question where the CPN hadn't wanted to go!
(I kicked him under the table) but don't quote me!

State any views you like jingl but be prepared to back them up with evidence. I have never seen any evidence that children with loving parents will never turn to drugs, or that enough love in a family guarantees that children will not grow up to be selfish or uncaring. They're just sweeping statements.

Yes. I'd like to know to whom, or to whose post absent was referring.

That was to absent

That's ' who's a fat finger'

Me! I typed you at rather you are

'Wanton stupidy' ?? Please have the courage to tell us who is being 'wantonly stupid'?

Galen Who is a fat finger?

At the risk of sounding like a cliché, even if we don't agree with what someone says, they have the right to express that opinion, unless it's a personal attack on another.

I agree completely with Ana on this point.

I haven't seen any examples of that on this thread, absent. What a strange accusation!

You are! Fat finger!

Oh! Come off it! You at trying to say that others can't disagree with you?
That's rather a strange arguements isn't it?

Insensitivity I can handle; wanton stupidity is much harder to endure.

That was my point too. What's happened to Gransnet?

No one will dare to say anything even slightly controversial soon in case they inadvertently cause offence to someone, somewhere, who might possibly have been/is being/may in the future be a bit upset by our opinion.

nightowl So we mustn't state our views honestly on any discussion thread on here, because some GNrs might have been affected by the subject some time in their past?

Just a "soft place to fall" then?

Ok. If you want to think my kids have been up to all sorts behind my back, go ahead. Enjoy!