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Originally Posted by jaxie
That's probably more because of neglect that real poverty.
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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Parents are more neglectful now than in any point in history?..... Straw clutching at best that is, so there is no failings to be seen, no families falling through the cracks ... just bad parenting.
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It's more complicated than either of these things and also, it is both, to be honest. If a child in the UK is legitimately going hungry, then jaxie is correct, there is an element of neglect or incompetence. There's just no question about that. But that makes it far too simple. Where things are going so wrong, it is in the vast majority of cases, BECAUSE of poverty. Not literally the inability to buy food... but the conditions that people find themselves living in, causing depression, despair, substance abuse, not coping, and the big one - mismanagement leading to
crippling debt. That then leads to kids going hungry, underperforming in school, slipping through the net, and reaching adulthood with no prospects and - more importantly - no sense of hope for a better life. The never ending cycle of "the underclass".