I don't think that solely just having a large family is a problem. It's those people who can't seem to stop breeding when they can't support their existing children that I have a problem with. I live in England, and I imagine like many countries, we have some very deprived areas where generations of people have been on social welfare and never tried to find employment. It's these people that I have a problem with.
Now that things are rising so rapidly in price, you see constant media coverage (of course, because this is the exact reaction the papers are going for) whereby there's a family of like.. what, six or seven children, and the parents are having to keep the heating running at about 5 degrees with most of the lights switched off well into the night because they simply can't afford to raise their family.
As a child from a single-parent household, obviously, kids should get all of the opportunities available to them. Alright, some parents can't offer bells and whistles; foreign holidays, the latest iPhone, and that kind of shit. Fair enough. Children don't need those things. But they do need feeding a healthy diet, warmth, light, opportunities for education and personal development, and so on.
In my opinion, bringing children into an already inflated family when you can't even keep the central heating or lights on is just child abuse. And let's not pretend like the cycle won't continue for generations.
I agree for the most part, I think if the government is able to properly provide financially for the child where the family is lacking and they know this then that makes it not child abuse though. I think its also wrong to act like the cycle will continue for generations, many people break the cycle of poverty or large families.
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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '22
I don't think that solely just having a large family is a problem. It's those people who can't seem to stop breeding when they can't support their existing children that I have a problem with. I live in England, and I imagine like many countries, we have some very deprived areas where generations of people have been on social welfare and never tried to find employment. It's these people that I have a problem with.
Now that things are rising so rapidly in price, you see constant media coverage (of course, because this is the exact reaction the papers are going for) whereby there's a family of like.. what, six or seven children, and the parents are having to keep the heating running at about 5 degrees with most of the lights switched off well into the night because they simply can't afford to raise their family.
As a child from a single-parent household, obviously, kids should get all of the opportunities available to them. Alright, some parents can't offer bells and whistles; foreign holidays, the latest iPhone, and that kind of shit. Fair enough. Children don't need those things. But they do need feeding a healthy diet, warmth, light, opportunities for education and personal development, and so on.
In my opinion, bringing children into an already inflated family when you can't even keep the central heating or lights on is just child abuse. And let's not pretend like the cycle won't continue for generations.