Charles Dickens had continuously written about the plight of the English children in many of his novels. Little Oliver Twist in the novel Oliver Twist was routinely abused for asking for just another helping of watery porridge from the warden of the orphanage he stayed in. Nothing seems to have changed for the English kids.
Living With Hardship 24/7, a heart-wrenching report published by The Frank Buttle Trust, points out that about 25% of UK’s children go without hot meals for days, they do not have access to toys, and they have little opportunity to read story books. Books are very expensive in Britain. The UK Independent tells us touching stories of children below five years trying to save their pocket-pennies and give that back to their parents. Children are getting stressed out with monetary worries.
Many parents interviewed spoke of their helplessness. They simply do not earn enough. They are just not able to purchase toys and even winter-clothes for their wards. The finances have all gone wrong for poor Britain. One little girl of nine has nightmare thinking about her mom’s struggles to get her a birthday gift. She feels to pay her mother back for the gift. And while this is the real state in Europe, the nations go to war spending huge amounts. The kids back home need not eat nor play.
End Child Poverty, a network of 100 children’s charities, wants the Government to end hunger within 2020. This seems to be a Utopian idea. Children do not vote, so they do not matter. I believe after Jonathon Swift, that kids are there for cutting up and eating. Then the food and populations problems will be solved once for all.
Via: UK Independent
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Very touching, so to say! I thought England was a rich country...but, if what you say is true then God help those kids.
Of course there are poor people in Britain, just like any other country in the world. There are plenty of poor people and children in the US as well. There are poor people all over Europe as well. What’s the root cause?
In the UK it’s probably both immigrants and working class people that suffer the most. It is only natural that recent legal/illegal immigrants end up in the lower income groups. It takes time to adjust.
Lower working class people in the UK on the other hand lack the social mobility that an education should give them. I see both a cultural and class based problem. Children growing up in that environment have no hope.
@Andrew
A sane comment at long last from you!
I recomend typing into your search engines social separatism and reading updated articles on how different financial variables effect and will contine to impact people in given social standings. A recent hard statistic I learned was only a 6% likelihood exists that next generation childern will exceed the wealth and social standing of that their parents have. Even talking into account factors of education, drive, skill, and pure luck itself. Hard to ponder that, although its seems to ring of some truth.