Quote Originally Posted by WBA123 View Post
Your political ramblings get evermore bizarre.

You saw kids on free dinners in the 60's and 70's. Yet its all today's generation don't put their kids bellies first? Or is it 'let our children go hungry, and then they'll see how hard we had it in the 60's'...?

Seems like you have a chip on your shoulder with the younger generation.

Can't possibly think which newspaper might have planted that seed in your head....

Here's a question for you, feel free to try and answer as seamlessly as possible. Our government have just wasted 12,000 million pounds on a T&T system that barely works. Given that excess, why should any child suffer hardship, poverty and hunger in our country today?
Too many people these days have kids without either the finances to look after them or the time to be bothered about them.

My ex son in law was one of these types.

He’s left two partners including my daughter ( his ex wife ) with one year old toddlers and “moved on” due to each situation being “not right” for him!

In the brief three year period he was with my daughter and the one year he spent with my lovely grandson he spent 95% of his available free time flicking through his phone whilst my daughter looked after his own daughter on her visits and her own baby son.

You should only bring kids into the world if you’re prepared to invest your time and love into them and be able to financially support them to the exclusion of you having all that you want ie. clothes, new phones, booze, fags etc and I don’t think enough put kids needs first.

We should always pick up those who fall between the cracks and are made destitute by circumstances, I totally agree with that.

I know teachers who are aghast at the number of 5 and 6 year olds who are coming into school who are not toilet trained and who haven’t been given any breakfast 123.

It’s not small numbers either.......it’s an epidemic of kids who’s parents think that this type of responsibility falls upon someone else!

My own nan left home in 1925 at the age of 14 and moved a long distance to become a nurse in an orphanage........she later ran the place for many years.

Her cottage was next to the orphanage and through the 60’s I got to know through her what true poverty and suffering of kids looked like.

Don’t make me out to be something that I’m not...........I don’t like to see that sort of injustice but I also don’t like utter fecklessness and the mindset that it’s always someone else to pick up the slack once you’ve had kids.