10-22-2020, 03:32 PM
(10-22-2020, 10:31 AM)Protheroe Wrote: Having worked in a city homelessness and benefits advice unit during a recession I've seen abject poverty up close and personal. In the vast vast majority of cases parents still manage to feed themselves and their kids.
If you find a (literally) "starving kid" you'll find a multiplicity of child neglect. How giving a feckless parent a food voucher is going to stop that I don't know.
It is not unreasonable to expect parents to feed their kids.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in those meetings.
"have you tried...not being poor?"