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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
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".
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Yup totally agree and I'm not sure that will ever change because it suits the most wealthy and powerful in society to keep them down and the middle/working class blaming the "benefit scroungers" and them blaming us etc etc keeps the focus off those who are the real problem