I was born into a poor, working class family in the 50s. My parents chose to have one child, worked long hours in factory jobs they both hated, provided nice meals, a clean house and good morals and were never in debt because they didn't but things they couldn't afford. They wouldn't ever have considered it was the state or charity's responsibility to feed us.
Well shine your halo quizqueen you are obviously above the rest of us.
Your parents had jobs and, in the 1950 many people didn't feel they could limit their families and would have found it hard to get help to do so. Obviously, your wonderful parents must have had an insight others didn't. What if those jobs had been lost, or one partner had been lost, unlikely that a home would have been lost as the laws stopped people being thrown out or overcharged although housing could be squalid, and there was far more council housing.
Great that they didn't buy things they couldn't afford - no food, no heating for you was it? I despise that sort of holier-than-thou post from those whose small minds cannot see that things happen to take life out of peoples control. Jobs in a factory? You'll be lucky these days. An income you can be sure of? Not if you've hit rock bottom and hard work simply isn't enough.
In today's world, where the vast majority are earning their poverty with one, two or three jobs they don't have the unionisation in factories your parents could rely on to protect the worker. Our great move towards neo-liberalism, taken by the Tories, aided and abetted by some so-called socialists and liberals, has taken away that security.
Many lived as your parents did and felt their lives were better than their parents have ever been with the NHS, better pensions, and the post-war fighters who brought secondary education for all, including you, for free. Now when we want to move from free primary education, followed by free secondary education into free tertiary education the Tories say "no", not for the likes of you. You have to go into debt. We are not taking your education to a level that can compete with our own.
We are going back to abject poverty of a kind, so they tell us, than we haven't seen since Victorian time. And you come along and tell us these are bad people and you are an example of the good. You make me weep.