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Thread ID: 137872	2014-08-31 08:34:00	Hungry Kids	mzee (3324)	PC World Chat

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1382873	2014-08-31 08:34:00	I am getting really pissed off with hearing about hungry kids in New Zealand! What is wrong with the parents feeding their kids? Why should the Tax Payer pay for feeding other peoples kids? I know a solo mother who had 4 kids. They always had breakfast and she always gave them packed lunches. She had cancer and lived for her kids. All the kids have done well, are polite and generally nice people. I will probably be growled at, but I can't help noticing that all the hungry kids in the schools appear to be Polynesian. If the Europeans and Asians can feed their kids, why can't they?	mzee (3324)
1382874	2014-08-31 08:45:00	Well we feed the kids because the parents don't for whatever reason? The reason doesn't really matter. Or would you prefer to let them starve.	plod (107)
1382875	2014-08-31 10:09:00	there can be a big range of social problems at play here. from beaten up trodden on abused solo mums, fathers who take there beer money first, gambling problems, housing problems (eg massive rents), parents who let "kids raise themselves these days", to simply stressed out parents who can't get out of bed in time. i've been in their shoes, so please please feed the kids.	tweak'e (69)
1382876	2014-08-31 11:23:00	Way back in the 1950s we were a family of nine. Our mother was a widow. We cooked our own porridge for breakfast at home and took jam sandwiches to school for lunch. We did not starve. Every kid at our school did get a free half pint of milk given to them at every morning playtime. Other than that we drank plenty of water out of the water fountains. I remember being told that in England the kids over there were given a free lunch. Nowadays I hate porridge and jam sandwiches. Kids going to school hungry may be a case of parents getting their priorities wrong. The first priorities should be food and shelter.	Bobh (5192)
1382877	2014-08-31 11:47:00	Kids going to school hungry may be a case of parents getting their priorities wrong. The first priorities should be food and shelter. I couldn't agree more, but we wouldn't jail a victim of assault, so why would we make a hungry child starve to pay for their parents failure? There is no easy fix, and I don't think it's up to government to do anything either. It has to come from society since it is a societal problem.	Krakka (17266)
1382878	2014-08-31 13:16:00	Well we feed the kids because the parents don't for whatever reason? The reason doesn't really matter. Or would you prefer to let them starve. There is no need for the kids to starve! The problem is the parents, sort them out, help them with budgeting, and ensure that absentee fathers support their kids. Bottom line is, if you can't afford kids you shouldn't have them!	mzee (3324)
1382879	2014-08-31 19:38:00	Way back in the 1950s we were a family of nine. Our mother was a widow. We cooked our own porridge for breakfast at home and took jam sandwiches to school for lunch. We did not starve. Every kid at our school did get a free half pint of milk given to them at every morning playtime. Other than that we drank plenty of water out of the water fountains. I remember being told that in England the kids over there were given a free lunch. Nowadays I hate porridge and jam sandwiches. Kids going to school hungry may be a case of parents getting their priorities wrong. The first priorities should be food and shelter. At my school in England the kids were called up one at a time to pay their dinner money to the teacher, we as part of the poor were not called up. Everyone in my class knew who we were, do you want to know how degrading that is, it made me work extra damn hard to achieve everything I have with no help. Never been on a benefit ever, except ACC when my arm/should fell completely to pieces and needed major re-constructive surgery a few years ago. If your going to give handouts do it in a way that doesn't cause this type of embarrassment to the kids. Not ranting at you Bob just telling how the "Free" dinners worked.	gary67 (56)
1382880	2014-08-31 19:52:00	There is no need for the kids to starve! The problem is the parents, sort them out, help them with budgeting, and ensure that absentee fathers support their kids. Bottom line is, if you can't afford kids you shouldn't have them!if only people that could truely afford to have kids had them, who do you think will be cleaning toilets, looking after the elderly, packing your groceries. I had my two kids while an apprentice and without a handout of sorts from the government things would have been so much different. Unfortunately when you are at the bottom it can be mighty hard work your way out. Only just now a year off 40 have I managed to buy a house and that was with government help.	plod (107)
1382881	2014-08-31 20:42:00	Way back in the 1950s we were a family of nine. But welfare was better then. Rents weren't as bad. Power was cheaper. There's an article in the Listener on children and poverty, the doc says it's not all solo mothers and welfare kids anyway, often it's just low incomes and with the cost of housing and power and stuff, there just isn't enough left. It's not the kids fault, regardless of the parents situation.....why say oh well too bad. And it did happen in the past too, there was a girl in my primary school who used to go round and eat everyones apple cores, so I started to share my lunch with her. My mum must have just thought I ate more all of a sudden. Husband lived in a tiny town with 7 siblings, no running hot water etc....they older kids worked in the market gardens, they used to eat the stuff often, raw swede and so on. His mum had her own garden and chickens and all that but still, they were pretty poor. In the end they got enough money to move to Akld and both got jobs, so the younger kids didn't have to do that.	pctek (84)
1382882	2014-08-31 20:43:00	I have yet to see one of these staving kids in NZ. If anything most in Sth Ak look overfed if anything.	CliveM (6007)
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