That is a complete load of old pony along with the "this is hurting you more than me".

Mind your own business means mind your own business.

tough i have made it my business.
If you want to be sanctimonious on an open forum i will comment .
So it’s ok to make pronunciations on how nasty other people are but not when the boots on the other foot.
To quote corporal jones
“ they don’t like it up ‘em”

I find that hard to believe Tara that people are too poor to feed their kids. I think it is more that they have never learned to cook properly and have been totally dependent on processed foods which we all know are exhorbitant prices compared to freshly made meals.

There are so many nutritional meals parents can make for their children with cheap ingredients. Home-made soups, Jacket potatoes, pasta dishes, vegetable dishes, several mince dishes. All followed with fresh fruit for a dessert. They can even go into the supermarkets at the end of the day and get ingredients even cheaper. I could get all that very cheap if I shopped around for the best bargains. Surely they must have an open market there one day a week? There really is no excuse for a single child to go hungry. Even a box of Porridge and a pint of milk doesn't cost much for breakfast, followed by a nutritional boiled egg with toast.

When times were a bit hard for mum, she would pop to the butcher and buy a load of bacon bones for pennies, boil them up with a cabbage and potatoes in their jackets and we kids would love to sit down and rip all that lovely lean meat that had been left on the bones by the butcher. a knob of Kerrygold on the potatoes and cabbage to melt nicely as we gnawed at the bones and we loved it.
We always managed to have some tinned peaches or a made jelly with evaporated milk for dessert too.

That's why I find it hard to fathom how anyone can ever say they are too poor??

I sometimes wonder if many are claiming they are too poor to feed the children because perhaps their own luxuries must be bought first. Cigarettes? Beer? who knows?

Some people are genuinely struggling financially, but others are probably spending money on booze, cigarettes and maybe even drugs. Whatever is the case their children must not suffer.

Tough I have made it my business.
If you want to be sanctimonious on an open forum expect people to comment .
So it’s ok to make pronunciations on how nasty other people are but not when the boots on the other foot.
To quote corporal Jones
“ they don’t like it up ‘em”

One of the chaps working along side my husband has to use a food bank and during school holidays his children get food packages from the local church. He works a 48 hour week and if he could get an extra job would but it's a tightrope on his own between working more a hours and the cost of more child care while he works. If you are earning NMW and the child care provider charge is £10 an hour you are worse off doing the extra hours.

Anyway I think 48 hours physically demanding job is enough if he did more when would he see his children ?

Julie, if this man is earning the minimum wage for 48 hours per week he will be earning around £375 per week. It is sad that he has lost his wife, but if he cannot feed his children through the school holidays, maybe they would be better going into temporary care. I know that isn't ideal, but if they were my children my first priority would be to make sure they had food & care.