These people are angels who are working to help others. They are the real HEROES. It is better to die rather than starving out of poverty every single day.
❤🌻🍀Life is precious friend. People need to learn a whole lot more of self-help skills. Mothers need to nurse their babies, and learn how to make their own babyfoods at home. The adults need to grow victory gardens, food needs to be home cooked, simple foods made from simple ingredients. Foraging is a very precious skill, certainly worth learning. Any little jobs that bring some money in, are worth doing. Relatives and family need to stick together, and help each other. Friends need to help friends, and then folks if you really do need help find the food pantries, better than starving, that's for sure. If you would help a friend in need if you could, then you also go and find help when you need it. Everyone is precious. Everyone.
Back in 1930s, price of a three bed house in Lonon including all the purchase costs was around £850. Seventy years later, by the turn of the century, the same house costs £600,000. This means, the house prices have gone up by a staggering 700 times, while the wages have gone up by barely 100 times. This explains the real cause of children's poverty. Period.
The two child limit on universal credit sounds good in theory however it won't stop people from having more than two kids they can't already afford. When I see families struggling with children - I feel sad for the innocent children who were brought into the world by parents already struggling.
But 1 of the women in the clip could afford those £100+ Nike vapourmax trainers ? Even if she did get them second hand which is unlikely they'd still be £60. How about someone teach them to get their priorities straight first ! Instead of splashing out on materialistic items when you can barely afford to eat....
@@kelliejackson3563 Like it or not, it's ultimately everyone's problem. Issues like this will create ripple effects throughout society until it impacts everyone somehow.
@@Tim85-y2q no, it's not, people need to be responsible for themselves. the cost of living crisis will make the irresponsible people wish they hadn't relied on everyone else to prop them up, because we will no longer be able to.
I have sympathy with people struggling, I really do. But, it's limited when people with 4 kids are complaining. Why did you have 4 kids in the first place if you cant afford them? If you've got no money why are you starting a family and bringing a child into the world in poverty, or having more kids when you're already struggling with 2 or 3 kids? That sounds harsh but it's true. Having kids is a privilege, not a right. The media narrative never raises this question, ever. Why? Because they're too scared of upsetting people who don't take responsibility for their own choices.. They never explore the premise that if you don't have any money, don't have more kids. Simple. Harsh reality deserves harsh truth.
The answer to your comment is simple: it is not right to punish those 4 children because of their parents. They are born and it is too late. The state must help them so that they receive a good education and are healthy. Note that the video is also talking about other use cases where a couple with one child got separated after their child was born. It is difficult to predict separation and people's circumstances can change. They could lose their job and fall into poverty later in their life. I hope my comment will help you to understand that each family's situation is specific and you should not make generalities from one use case.
i really didn't want to blame anyone but i must blame at least her. She probably has these 4 kids with four different partners and that's alone is to much i mean are you 11 years old what is wrong with you and with the people/partner who agree to make you a baby in the first place...maybe she is doing this intentionally so she could get more and live on benefits till the rest of her life like a parasite... no i'm not sorry because there;re real people out there who need real help and they are in a real desperate needs
@@jazziegurlt22 I don't think disregard of using Protection in Intercourse counts as something one can shrug away. It's the Fault of both the Man & Woman.
Shocking to see the UK became such a third world country. If you look up north and outside London its even worse. The amount of homeless people and people on drugs you see on the streets is horrendous. 😢
Yeah but when a mortgage is, for example £400pcm, and the rent is set at £800.... And then you consider that rent payment doesn't count towards a persons so called "credit rating" even after 10/15/20 years. How would you feel if you were refused a £400pcm mortgage after coughing up £800 regularly for years? That system is deeply flawed.
One of the women in this report, said she only get’s support for the oldest two, and then said she has another one of three and one of seven months. That’s when I start to lose patience. I know people say that they shouldn’t be told how many children they should have, but to me, just be sensible. If you can’t feed the two you have already, why go on and have another two. NI’m quite prepared to be shouted down on this.
im not saying people dont deserve any help from the gov in these harsh times, but how do you justify having 4 children while having a low income? i just can't wrap my head around that. and where are these fathers?
@Benjamin Miles it's an increasing issue, as a child minder I looked after a family of 5 kids, 1 mum, each had a different dad, 2 dads had no contact and constantly asked why daddy didnt love them ect, what can u say to that, "sorry kid no.3 ur mum prefers so shag any man that takes in interest and thinks trapping him will make him marry me" I have heard a lady say that as a "joke"
I strongly believe u shouldnt get benefits if u have more than 2 kids, chilren are a life long responsibility not kick them out at 16 for "me time" If some "parents" cant even afford basic stuff like this lady said floor space, sofa and table then why the hell have a baby? I saved 5k for my first child so that if I were to be laid off or some unexpected bill came, I didnt have to worry, plus using that year to save and mentally prepare was a great way to show to myself and my husband that we were ready
Humans have a biological urge to reproduce which is the reason we still exist after 2 million years. It doesn't go away just because "Let's be sensible under the economic ideology of those power".
Right. Also think ppl need to be incentivised to work. Welfare has a horrible track record. Government intervention exacerbates the condition. The Keynesian way has been proven not to work🤷🏾♀️
The state is not responsible for someone getting pregnant four times. If you cant afford kids use contraceptives until you can. Or, have one kid that you can actually pay for and give a chance in life instead of four who will grow up in poverty and then expect the rest of society to pay for them.
Poor should work more! Even minimal wage when working 70 hrs/week in UK are enought! Europe makes people so lazy. I would love see them in Asian factories!
@@o.constantib3741 You realise most of Asia has far less homelessness and far less crime than Western countries? Anywhere in Japan, Korea, most of China, Malaysia, Singapore, most of the Gulf states are already better off. Some of these may appear to have lower 'GDP per capita', but the difference is the social structure (families) in Asia is largely intact, cost of living is much lower, governments actually function and try to take care of their people, and at the very least, they are building new infrastructure rather than let the existing rot etc.
@@pineapplesareyummy6352 of course I know that.... I was just curious about where as Asia is a big place. Cambodia is obviously very different to South Korea. I think all those things about Asia are true, particularly the family structure
Im not judging everyone here because i know some people are genuinely struggling and doing all they can but alot of the figures come from young single parents who prioritize cigarettes, booze, and tarting themselves up and other pleasures over the essentials and most important things they need to consider and they end up bringing kids into a family life which is a trainwreck. and i genuinely do feel sorry for the kids because i know its no fault of their own.
People have different priorities. Sometimes you will see them with cigarettes or fast food and then they need the food bank etc. Well this has to stop and feeding the kids comes first.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to be a single parent. Having a spouse that can help you by either going to work or taking care of the kids reduces so much stress. Very saddening that these interviewees are going through this hardship
Most single parents are a result of bad decisions. Yes people die of natural causes or accidents but for every parent dying in a car accident, there are 10 cases where the people were unfit to be parents.
I grew up in Polish village, till early 2000 we didn't had car, we are working class and one thing that always hits me that I had always access to health food - my granpa was growing his own cucumbers and tomatoes in garden, we had cow to get milk and they had potatoe fields. It was the time that junky food started to be everywhere but my mother was always provider of vegetables and quality food. They were/are hard working people. It is so challenging to people to eat cheap and with health benefit but when you grew up in right environment with access to information about f.e. chemical components of food or how it is produced, it is easier even if you poor.
in Poland we might have been kids growing up in low income families but everyone at least owned their land and houses! No rent nor mortgages. I've never heard of rent until I came to UK. That's the cause of misery and poverty - most of the paycheque disappears into landlord's pocket...
Not most have gardens in UK to grow their own produce or own a home and I doubt any landlord will allow farm animals or their gardens ripped up for food produce or allowed to keep chickens or cows in their back gardens either under this goverment.
That is Poland. That was a different time. This is the UK and it's 2022....what you are saying is NOT applicable!. Sorry. Not everyone owns their own land or a big enough piece of land to grow enough to sustain a family. The weather is a factor also. To own a cow and have the space and resources for it would be significant! You can not compare .....
@@JakeAldridge_ No, they are allowed as long as they can support them. But in this case this woman was already in financial troubles and yet she decided to have more kids. Not even one but three more. Do you seriously think those kids have the same chance in life as children from families that were thinking with their brains not with what between their legs? And please, don't start on contraceptives that don't always work as they should.
@@Ella0575 See why are we not allowed to talk about this? Iv'e personally made the decision to never have children because I have mental and physical health issues and I will probably always be relatively poor, why would anyone in their right mind think it's ok to bring a child into a situation like that? Yet STILL people think i'm strange for making this choice.
@@ggreen5943 Whenever anyone points out that it is not a good decision to have multiple children if one cannot afford to feed one there is always someone accusing those people of being biased against the poor. Pure demagogy.
Most of these parents are selfish and irresponsible, are not thinking of the children but are probably caring for some loser at their kids' expense when HE should be working! I've seen this stuff so much during the course of my life: I live around it!
funny how you find religion mos often in the poor and desperate..you think there might be a message there ?? take a good look at what religion has done to the Philippines...
@arl business it makes me sad to see what religion had done to the Philippines... Filipino are hard working decent people... but they easily believe nonsense, not just Catholicism. They believe there is all this Gold that Marcus has hidden away, millions of tonnes and when I point out that there has only ever been 183,000 tonnes ever mined, they get angry and still don't believe me. I think it is because their lives are so hard and they don't complain that they look for illogical hope. Maybe if they were more angry at the sort of lives they are forced to live, they would have a better chance of not believing nonsense ? I have a number of friends in the Philippines - never ask for anything and the nicest people you could meet...
The First Lady already has 4 kids and she barely looks over 30. Why are these people complaining? The council owes them nothing and if they keep on popping out kids with no father support of course they are gonna be poor
Just because because you don’t see the father around doesn’t mean they’re not getting money from them, we have the csa and they let nothing slide, these women just want more money
6:18 support for someone who is pregnant and have toddler! How stupid you must to be to make another baby if you have such a tough situation? Single room, one bed. .... you can imagine how such a person will raise children.... such a lack of responsibility. Educate these people! Not only giving ! You will feel better but it is not solution! It harms more children and later society
Glad to see some common sense here. I was expecting to see an execution in the comments as I find people so entitled that they can’t see they’ve put themselves in a terrible financial situation, including their future child with limited prospects.
Tories have cut £37 billion from social security benefits system since 2010. Meanwhile the Tories have awarded a two year private test and trace contract that will cost £37 billion.
And the over 50's the old patriots don't give a crap. It's the older generation that have kept the tories in power for so long, screwed the younger generations and it's the older generation that is the most racist of them all. They still live in their not so great british empire days.
@@lionroar26 To be fair about half of those aged 50 - 60 voted Conservative according polling with a higher proportion in older age groups those aged 60 to about 75. The Greatest Generation those born during the interwar and war years in the 20th Century have many people who opposed Brexit and oppose Tories because of their experience.
@@Crustywasp Correct, in all these documentaries they basically highlight single mother's. Neither the taxpayers or government should be replacing the financial resposibilities of these fathers who father these children. Does not matter if the relationship breaks down, the fathers of these children are responsible for their own offspring. The BBC and these single mothers point their fingers at the tax paying public and demand more. Why the government refuses to make these fathers responsible is mind boggling. Easy to enforce through National Insurance and Driver's License numbers. On the plus side it might make both parties involved in the making of a baby more inclined to take precautions and plan things out before casually getting it on with a partner who might not think longterm. Just an observation !
1.5 million live in poverty and the rest live just above the poverty line. Really no difference... When I was a child my mother was told that she earned 50 pence over the bread line so I wasn’t entitled to free school dinners. It’s laughable looking back.
@@MikeWalmsley A quote that is flawed IMO, unless you apply it in a philosophic sense of the microcosm(Self) being representative of the macrocosm(Universe).
What makes uk poverty even more cruel, is unlike in other places eg some countries in Africa, its invisible. You cant simply identify it just by seeing someone outside, as a result most people see the world through rose tinted spectacles and are unaware of it.
What kids experience in countries like the UK and the US is comparable poverty. It's one thing to grow up poor when everyone in the community is poor. It's quite another to grow up poor when many people surrounding you are comparably wealthy. Studies have shown that comparable poverty actually creates more problems and stress for the poor. It's terrible to look over and see other kids enjoying stability and wealth and to know that you've done nothing to deserve your lot in life
@Ash Hegde I don't agree in forced sterilization - if you want to see how that turns out there have been dozens of cases where countries have forced sterilization on women and the outcome was absolutely disastrous. Often vulnerable people/populations are the targets of these programs and it corrodes trust between medical systems and vulnerable populations. But I do agree that many of these family's problems are directly related with having children too young or when they were ill-prepared. I believe that MUCH better sex education/ family planning classes earlier in life and free/easy access to birth control and abortions for all people would help tremendously.
@@jip230 I don't care how much sex education is taught there will always be a large number of young girls getting pregnant because they refuse to deny themselves and the current boyfriend of a night (or many nights) of "pleasure".
@Ash Hegde the idea is quite good except it sounds like a way for some people to make money. Some women would literally turn up for 10 abortions a year !
Rent is extremely expensive compared to the average salary in UK. Also the childcare is ridiculous expensive which doesn't allow mothers to get a job! Come on UK gov you can do much more for your people!
UK style of poverty is much different from absolutely poverty. I guess many people not in poverty around the world are still envying the poverty life in UK.
@@eduardochavacano That's the difference between poverty and absolute poverty. UK's poverty is relative poverty based on UK economy. The poverty line is even higher than "rich" line in many other countries.
@Sam Foston everyone in this video put themselves if their position. Why should I have to pay when I've worked hard. if people don't want to work hard that's OK but don't ecspect the tax payer to let you live with everything you want
I don't care from which part of the world 🌍 you come from,being unproductive,cant provide for your own kids is the most painful feeling one could ever experience as a parent.....
A growing numbers of single parenting in the UK is a result of core concept of family system of a Husband and Wife relationship is in constant decline and child paying the price for not having a lawfully committed relationship between their parents.
This happens to due to poor sex and relationship education by parents and teachers leading to dumb decisions made by teenagers who have life consequences.
@@washimpatwary1446 I'm not convinced it's anything to do with teachers tbh, I think it started solely as a parenting fault, and as the years go by the problem spreads (in line with the rather large families that resulted). problem with teachers is their hands are so tied these days, they can't even discipline kids anymore, and the parents sure as hell aren't, so as the years go by we just get dumber, more selfish and out of control as a nation
@@neilmiller3220 I wonder how the queen helps with exports and tourism. The Palace of Versailles receives 10 million tourists a year. The number of tourists visiting London - 18 million. One single former Royal Palace in France receives a number of tourists that is more than half of what the whole city of London receives. And here is what the Independent has to say about the brit royal's: www.independent.co.uk/news/people/biggest-myth-about-queen-her-contribution-british-economy-10491277.html
There is no amount of poverty that will stop these poor ass people having 5 kids. That woman moaned tjat after bills she had 600 for the month. Firstly that is 600 pounds of tax payers money so she should be grateful and second thats more than some full time workers have after expenses.
no one deserve life in poverty but reality is the more children you have the more likely you will get in financial hardship. No one talks about it. Simply think twice if you actually can support your child. If you have doubts, don't make kids. it can be hard to rise just one kid. imagine how difficult it is if you have three. Governments all over the globe should encourage people not to have kids.
Your comment is vile nazi hatred... “don’t make kids” People don’t choose to be in poverty they’re fall into poverty from uncontrolled circumstances. There’s families who’s parents were in employment then lost their job through a collapsing economy and redundancy. For example, if we go into another covid lockdown because of the Omicron variant. How many pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes will close down because of the lack of customers? People are literally only 1 or 2 paycheques away from falling into poverty.
@@notmenotme614 first of all I did not say just "don't make kids", I said "If you have doubts, don't make kids". There are two different meanings. I understand that people can be hit by uncontrolled circumstances but how many kids they have is in their control. It is more expensive to support three children than two, it is more expensive to support two children than one. Mathematics is quite simple here, everyone should understand. If someone's financial situation is so fragile that they live paycheck or two from falling into poverty and don't have let's say six month emergency fund (the more the better), then I have a legitimate question - Why they decided to become parents if their situation is so unstable? Unfortunately, a lot of people don't see that at least some of their troubles can be solved just by thinking in advance. This is why I think those who financially insecure should think twice before becoming a parent.
I remember as a kid 30/40 years ago someone said to me one day England going to be as bad as America I never understood. I thought he ment guns and crime no it was the rich and poor divide
The UKs rich we just invest our money in bullshit and help the rich get richer instead of help the ones in poverty we spend so much money on bullshit things like all these vaccines that we are vaccinating everyone with even tho they don’t stop the virus 😂
I watched a documentary about the history of council housing and public assistance in the UK and it’s no wonder. Do people really have a guaranteed roof over their head for life just because they qualified at one point? There were people who’d climbed out of poverty, purchased their own home, and now rent out their council flat at a profit. What a system...
I don’t understand why people *have more Children* and they know that they can barely feed themselves. Can’t they wait til time is right when they are financially stable?
My children, a boy and a girl, are 40 and 36 and when I look at what is classed as child poverty today I realise that my children were brought up in poverty in the 80's. I would have liked more children but I stopped at 2.
I sometimes think about that. My parents were 16 and 18 yrs old with my sister and I. We didnt realize but I can see now that we did live what would be considered poverty. I always wanted the breakfast cereals i saw on tv, i remember my mom tried to cut up pieces of bread with sugar and milk... nothing at ALL like Frosted Flakes. I'm in no way downplaying this its hard out here. Sad,
Because of how things went The UK has alot of underclass immigrants as they are better of in England's econemy than there own But they do feel worse in england
After paying towards her rent that Mother of four had £600 a month to pay bills, buy children's clothes, and buy food but couldn't manage! She needs financially educating I'm afraid. She needs to learn what to shop for to make healthy meals, go in charity shops to buy clothes and cut down on bills as much as possible. Bet she's got a mobile phone with decent data on it and probably some form of paid TV channels etc I could easily manage on that much a month and have four well dressed, healthy children.
1. The root cause of child poverty is when people have children they cannot afford. 2. There are now record job vacancies. We need to get the work-shy off benefits and into work. Workfare is better than welfare.
If you can't afford children and live in a high poverty area then DON'T HAVE THEM!!!! Why have children if you are poor? Breeding irresponsibly breeds poverty! Poor, irresponsible and dysfunctional parents perpetuate the cycle of poverty. These selfish parents bring unfortunate and innocent children into a cold world (and children have needs such as warmth, food and shelter) but instead these awful parents dump their problems onto their the children by bringing them into their parent's shitheap of an existence. If only childbearing received the same level of scrutiny as getting a mortgage then maybe there'd be fewer children in need?
100% agree. How on earth do these children have a chance in their future? Coming from unstable homes, with single parents, finical pressures isn't good environment and is destroying our economy and future. The cycle will continue and continue and continue. Our welfare system is dated, our government wasteful and spineless. If we get mad and raise our voices, we are the mad ones! It's absolutely insane.
@@sarahluther9671 so nothing whatsoever to do with young girls having unprotected sex and thus unwanted babies, fathers shirking their responsibilities, abandoning their family and blowing all their money on drugs, couples having large families simply to try and cream more benefits from us tax payers, etc etc etc. sure the government haven't got it right, but the public sure as hell aren't helping the situation!
Because a black footballer trying to help starving kids was something they thought was a joke apparently. They only got onboard to not look like they were against the project purely down to media pressure, they were basically trying to cover their own backs.
Rashford is sadly just doing it for fame and making a publicity stunt, explains why he hasn't given a single penny of his own salary to help but asking other vulnerable people if they can pay
The government's position is to give money to parents to pay for children's food. I believe it would be better to use the money to feed the children directly. Parents might spend the money on on mobile phones new TVs drugs or alcohol rather than buying food for their children.
My brother works for a UK food charity. When he began a few years ago it was small, and he put in just a few hours each day. Now he simply cannot work hard enough, and he has complained of complete exhaustion. The situation is terrifying. Why? I have pondered this at length. Part of the reason seems to be that the political structure of the UK is obsolescent, and it fuels polarisation. The first-past-the-post system means that a political party can have a clear majority in the UK Parliament without having the confidence of most voters. There is rarely any need for horse-trading and compromise. A party with a majority can implement strong policies that aid one part of society in the short term, while damaging another. The system encourages infantile jibes, jeering, catcalls, and insults. It is often impossible to accept that the MPs involved hold degrees from the UK's top universities; they sound so damn supercilious, self-satisfied, arrogant, and downright bloody stupid. The politics of the House of Commons has every appearance of being egocentric, and driven by a "winner-takes-all" mentality. Indeed, the desire to be the "king of the castle" often seems to obscure the fact that Parliament exists to help ordinary British citizens. (Yes, it actually does!) People such as Jacob Rees-Mogg often do not seem to comprehend why they are there; the electorate and their pressing needs seem to be an irrelevancy compared with the need to feed the over-inflated ego. The cobwebbed House of Lords is ridiculously archaic. 751 unelected members for 68 million people?! Appearance fees? Food and drink paid for by taxpayers? The US Senate has 100 elected members for a population 5 times as big, and US senators know that being a senator is their job, not just a pastime for which they receive a daily fee greater than the amount received by a poverty-stricken family of 4 to survive for a week! Being granted political power on the basis of "blue blood" is not just an affront to everyone else, it is an obscenity. Aristocracy and royalty are obsolescent, fuddy-dud anachronisms that must GO! When interacting online I am always struck by the number of UK citizens who appear to be very badly educated and very badly informed. (I attended local government schools, by the way.) I have not yet interacted with a Brexiteer who has at least a basic grasp on economics, and one would assume that every school-leaver would know these principles. The extents of illiteracy and innumeracy are shocking. German school-leavers are (on average) streaks ahead of their British counterparts. Many young Germans have much better English than their British counterparts. They are also much more positive people, with much greater social maturity, and possess the kind of level-headed self-confidence that somany British youngsters lack. Indeed, Brexit itself can be seen to be a manifestation of a deep-seated lack of self-confidence: an inability to engage with strangers to sort out mutual issues to the benefit of all, in favour of withdrawing from the world and turning inwards, like a desperately shy and gauche teenager. Apart from anything else, I believe the UK's current stagnant political system has fed nationalism in Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, where people have not seen any closure of the social gulf engendered by the system. The failure of the UK to wake up, grow up, and sweep away its appallingly archaic politico-socio-economic system will lead to the end of the UK. WAKE UP!
@Silvestre Lockdown was merely the push over the edge! The UK has been appallingly divided for decades; indeed, the UK has never overcome the extraordinarily stratified society bequeathed by the Victorians. Politicians blurt endless, fatuous claptrap about "British" values and rebuilding a great nation, but the reality is different. Many Danish, German, and Dutch children have much better English than British children of the same age, and better mathematics, too! In the UK I witnessed or experienced an amazing number of criminal incidents, all perpetrated by young, lost, purposeless hoodlums. The UK has a socio-economic gulf that limits fair pay, decent housing, and good schools. My parents, brother, and myself have all had to struggle for months, sometimes years to effect the simplest transactions, such as transferring bank accounts, closing gas accounts, and opening new utilities accounts! SUCH SHOCKINGLY BAD, ILLITERATE, TARDY SERVICE, COUPLED WITH ALL THE VANDALISM, RACISM, SMASH-AND-GRABS, AND ASSAULTS* (!) OF WHICH I AM AWARE, MAKES IT 100% CLEAR THAT THE UNITED KINGDOM IS ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING A BACKWARD THIRD WORLD DUMP. GERMAN AND DUTCH SCHOOL-LEAVERS FROM POOR BACKGROUNDS ARE WAY AHEAD OF THEIR BRITISH COUNTERPARTS. The UK has pathetically low social mobility and social cohesion. I DON'T THINK THAT BRITISH POLITICIANS APPRECIATE JUST WHAT A BACKWARD, INWARD-LOOKING, AND DEEPLY DIVIDED DUMP THE UK IS BECOMING. Last month, UK food-and-drink exports to the EU plummeted by more than 75% - a direct result of having an electorate and politicians unschooled in basic economic principles. (I have been horrified by the blundering twerps churned out by Oxford and Cambridge Universities to rule Britain for decades: half-baked bloody nitwits hopelessly lacking in empathy, sympathy, basic socio-economic know-how, and especially the ability to handle foreign relations. I have lived abroad for decades, and the British people just don't seem to realise how jaw-droppingly inept their governments have been in international diplomacy.) *Including unprovoked assaults on my brother (three against one), and a good friend, (British skin-heads wielding bicycle chains).
You make a valid point about the farcical FPTP electoral system. I wish people would wake up to this and realise how undemocratic and unrepresentative it really is. We really do need to change this system! It's a shame you then politicise your argument with a tired cliché, conflating Brexit voters with a lack of education and comprehension of basic economics. I voted Brexit, I have a degree in Politics and an A Level in Economics. So, it is a little insulting to lump us all together as uneducated morons. Sadly, this is all too common from Remainers :(
I would also add to the argument that has been put forward a feeling I have in regard to the UK. To me theUK both politically, socially and economically has simply become too short termist in terms of approach. Everything is planned according to five year election cycles rather than preparing for the future. This is why infrastructure, education and the economy is failing no long term strategy is in place to foster and develop these. I not long a go noticed when I spoke about language barriers in the UK and how language teaching needs to be improved to improve our relations. I was laughed at and told it was a stupid idea as it would take too long. To me it is the short term nature of decisions that is wrecking the UK with few able to think ahead longer term.
As someone originally from the Netherlands, I think a major issue for the UK is the dire quality of the schools in the country. The whole school system is politicized and the Grammar schools, which were excellent for social mobility, and still are in Europe (NL has such a system, Germany has it, in East Germany they specifically made a point of having them, after they had comprehensive school like education factories under soviet rule) are replaced by low quality education. You need a lot of money to have an education that is comparable with what you get in Europe. If I were in charge, the first thing I'd do is bring back the Grammar schools, especially in the North of the UK, reform the university system, which often offers useless courses and puts young people in terrible debt. Another issue is the NHS, which seems a religion in this country, but actually offers by far the poorest quality of healthcare in North West Europe. The system is in desperate need of reform, perhaps a sensible privatisation, where poorer families are subsidised to purchase healthcare, like in NL, would work better. This means richer people can pay a bit more into the system, which will help to fund better hospitals and refurbishments that are often badly needed. But, I also think that people here have to accept that they are on the periphery of Europe. The south of Britain is close enough to Europe to benefit from trade and so on. But the north of the UK is not, and will always be relatively poorer than the rest. What needs to be done is that the lowest level of income is at an acceptable level. I think proper education could be a way out in the long run. As for your political system, I actually think the idea of having an MP that is accountable to a local area is not a bad thing.
@@91Durktheturk DUW! Mag ik het dan aannemen dat U Nederlands-sprekend bent? Het is een van enkele talen die ik heel goed versta en praat. Nu en dan lees ik Nederlandse (en Vlaamse) kranten om op de hoogte van evenementen te blijven. Education, at all levels, has always been a headache, everywhere. The 1971 British Cohort Study proved that the early years are of extreme importance. Children's abilities diminish if they do not receive adequate attention, stimulation, and instruction when they are very young. Irreversible damage is inflicted by an inferior home environment and poor education by the end of primary school - indeed, even by 7 years old. Children from middle and upper class homes tend to have rich home environments: books, music, videos, computers, and unlimited access to the internet. In such homes parents spend more hours with their children, and family outings to interesting places and holiday trips are more common. Parents tend to be more knowledgeable, better able to help with homework, and more aware of how their children's education will impact their future lives. Children with low income parents often have much less stimulating environments, and often suffer from the lack of the most basic resources, such as a quiet, safe place to study. Home life is often disrupted by alcoholism, drug addiction, and/or domestic violence. The British Cohort Study found that children who initially tested high for basic abilities, gradually slipped backwards relative to their age group if they were members of low income families living in deprived or depressed areas. Children who at first tested low, but who were members of high income families living in affluent areas where a privileged lifestyle is common, gradually rose relative to their age group. Logical reasoning ability, (IQ), for example, rose by up to 15 points for privileged primary school children, and decreased by more or less the same amount among deprived children. Many children who are initially bright, who ought to be able to enroll in Britain's leading "Russell Group" universities, fall through the cracks. Indeed, the situation for bright children in deprived homes and low income areas is terrible. Their lives are "stunted", and many know it. Their frustration plays out in various dreadful ways, which I became aware of when living in Uxbridge. I repeatedly encountered vandalism, car theft and joy riding/car-trashing, and drug addiction when living there in 2000-2. While high school is an issue, by that stage the damage has been done! (I understand why you think that grammar schools provided a good education, but while their academic approach was good for some children, it was rotten for others. If you know something about how children learn the same things in very different ways, you'll understand why. The "11+" was also hated by many people, as it seemed to "pigeonhole" children much too early, casting a long shadow across young lives.) There are different systems of proportional representation. Scotland uses the "de Hondt" system, which allows for both local constituency and regional political representatives, while respecting proportional representation. As someone who has read the details of the "packages" paid to many British directors and top managers, and who has repeatedly and directly witnessed the appalling results of the British socio-economic system, I believe that it simply cannot end too soon!
My name is Indira from baktinusa vocation school. I really feel sorry for children in the UK, they cannot feel the joy of childhood like children in other countries. I hope that in the future there will be a bright spot for them and they will be the next generation of their nation and will not feel poverty again.
If you think it’s difficult to bring up children in poverty， have pressure on life, why did you give so many births? 4 small children with a couple.....its hard and difficult for any people in any country!!!! Take your responsibility and control birth!!!!
@@comradealex6002 They are accessible but some people think it's their right to produce as many children as they want and let the state pay for the upbringing.
while it’s a valid thing to consider, it’s not the children’s fault that they were born, so it’s important to provide support for the poor for the sake of the children. Plus in china the one child policy failed it’s people in the long run. Now elderly have very few youth to pre retirement aged people supporting their needs. You have one child, supporting their parents and because of the good health of chinese people, they will likely be supporting their grandparents too, sometimes even great grandparents so it’s not completely madness to have lots of children. And in circumstances like this, you gotta have multiple children just to be sure atleast one of them turns out okay ish. Poverty is more likely to expose your children to the world of drugs and gangs etc and if you loose your only child, you have nothing left. Especially when many loving parents only have their children to live for. If you loose all your children, it’ll probably feel like you lost everything.
@@reylime2991 My comment was about the UK not China. While I understand and agree that a family's circumstances can change because of job loss or illness etc, there are many families here that just pop out children without a thought about how they can afford them and rely on the state. Perhaps it depends on what part of the country you live in as to whether you'll see this happening. It happens where I live. Youngsters have babies so that they can have social housing and all the trimmings from the state.
The sheer stupidity of seeing a country with a shortage of young people allowing its extremely valuable children to fall into extreme poverty. Are they TRYING to depress their dangerously low birth rate?
Low birth rates aren't 'dangerous'. That's a myth perpetrated by consumer capitalists and mainstream politicians and economists who believe that perpetual economic growth on a planet of finite resources is a desirable measure of progress, when it's totally unsustainable. Don't believe everything you read in the mainstream media.
Why do people have children? I took the decision a long time ago that I could not guarantee that if I had kids that I could always provide for them. Most people don’t think, they just procreate and who suffers? The children. So for the sake of the children stop having children. I pity the children but I feel zero for idiot parents. It is not rocket science things have been getting more expensive for a long certainly as ince before you were born and certainly befyyou decided to have kids.
It's heartbreaking gvt should help but people shouldn't have kids if they don't have stable means to support them. It's selfish to bring them into the world and then deprive them of the good life.
Governments would go broke in helping the poor and especially single mothers because women are super super expensive my friend was 2,500 a month for one kid and still had to buy school stuff and whatever else he needed while she didn't spend the money on the kid just her shopping sprees. Now times that 100× and that's how alot of women are nowadays. But I would mind if say her husband or the father dies then yes she and the kids should get a little assistance but we get these girls getting knocked up just so they don't work
alot of these situations could have been avoided with better choices. IMO one should avoid at all costs to be single parent for 1 child, how does 1 end up multiple children without having a partner to support.
Why do people have so many children if they can't afford them. One after the other !! If they stop at 3 or 4 kids, they can also stop at 1 or 2. Never heard of birth control ?
There are some that can afford them at the time then something unexpected happens, but it does look like there are those having more kids in order to claim more benefits...
Be a single female severely sick & disabled parent you’re just treated with contempt by local authorities and benefit agencies.. it’s dreadful so many poor children suffering and their parent/s suffering too :(
@@s.r.howell1297 and we all have to take individual responsibility if we're a idiot at school trying to drag decent people down the gutter with you and you end up on benefits
G-d bless these parents! We have been largely a one-parent icome family since pandemic. Being a registered nurse means that I'm very blessed with my income and we are by and far very fortunate compared to so many families living at or below poverty. It still doesn't make it easy for us but it is so important to reach out to others-especially our elderly!
I never hear anything about fathers in the UK having to pay child support. It's always the moms going it alone struggling financially to take care of the kids. So, are the fathers legally required to give financial support to the mother of the kids? If fathers are required to provide financially support of the kids to the mother is there a legal punishment for failing to support their kids? In the USA the fathers can be jailed as a last resort for "deadbeat" dads. The courts prefer the fathers work instead of serving jail time, but if the fathers' fail to comply then jail it is.
If they leave .. unless u chase them for it you don't get anything (I'm one mum going without child support because of domestic violence and don't want him thinking because he pays he must see my child who he hurt and nearly killed (I don't have any witnesses or physical evidence because I didn't record anything or take pictures stupidly so he got anyway with it all).... rn he hasn't contacted me or the courts for contact so I'm not going to chase him for it for the sake of £30 in most cases unless there earning big money and are decent people you will never get financial help from them)
@@alison2984 Why did you have a kid with him? I'm genuinely amused because I see this so much. Now mothers who complain about deadbeat fathers, yet had kids with him anyway. I do not get it why do you girls constantly spread your legs to the dregs of society?
I expect the ones that really want out are looking in the wrong places and need a mentor and when they go to seek help are met with bad advice in the form of working out income and outgoings based on Thier benefits getting a part time job ect.You can never break free with that advice.You make things 100x harder when you have kids without having a good £50,000 savings first.With a good 5 year plan you could get out of it.The issue is as soon as you save over £16,000 you lose your benefits and if your a single mum who can't work full time then you have to start using your savings.So you would need a way to not touch the wealth until you can get to the £200,000+ mark
You should be able to work as a parent and afford looking after a child. We forget there was a time when only men had to work and it was enough! Costs of living go up while wages are stagnant. Fathers are ideal ofc, but its not gonna fix everything, it’s an economy issue at heart.
Some might be out working hard in poorly paid jobs but as a nation that does not have a helpfull culture around relationships there are bound to be a lot of single parents.
@zum zum There is a government agency that does chase up fathers & pressure them to pay actally but one income, assuming the chap is working, does not really spread to look after twp households.
There's unacceptable level of poverty and hunger, but the politicians have no problem in finding and wasting billions of dollars on senseless wars and arms.
@@mikaylakimberly RIGHT. And that's not even mentioning the fact that their wealth, privilege, and empire was built off riches from the slave trade and colonization.
Real cause is that back in 1930 UK had the empire was living on the backs of people it had subjugated. The British took over lands after killing, driving away and talking over land and and resources from others such as australia, New Zealand, Canada, india and various other places. It has access to free or extremely cheap resources. They were doing great as leaches sucking others blood. But now the empire is gone and they don’t know how to deal with real life .
@@amyparker9816 Real cause is that back in 1930 UK had the empire was living on the backs of people it had subjugated. The British took over lands after killing, driving away and talking over land and and resources from others such as australia, New Zealand, Canada, india and various other places. It has access to free or extremely cheap resources. They were doing great as leaches sucking others blood. But now the empire is gone and they don’t know how to deal with real life .
And there we have it, none of these parents are underweight and neither are their children, but, the media and do gooders don't want to acknowledge this. Note the really nice and not cheap backpacks those little girls have.
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere. Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country
sex education? Condoms, birth control pills? stop blaming the government Right now the biggest problem we have to worry about is climate change due to the fact that there are too many people.
Why you complaining about money when you have made the decision to have 4 kids? Can we get child services on people who have children with no means/intentions of supporting them.
@@suzesiviter6083 I dunno, shooting the parents is a tad extreme, but I think he is on the right track....force them to be sterilised if they're incapable of acting rationally perhaps
@@martinarscott3524 I see the point, but poor people have as much rights to have kids as the rich, some poor families have better parents than rich ones.
You never see people who say they live in poverty buying their clothes in charity shops. I grew up in the 60s and 70s in a divorced single parent family on benefits, my father left and we never saw him again. Food was more expensive in real terms and while we didn't have things like colour TVs or a home phone or new clothes that often, but, we never went hungry, even if lunch was a tomato or beetroot sandwich, which are actually delicious. My mother knew that once the money was spent that was it, so she budgeted, something today's parents appear to be incapable of. I do not believe this woman has one meal a day and take note that these people are never filmed in their homes, always on their doorsteps, this is probably to hide the stuff they do have while they claim poverty, I bet that there are more toys in their houses than the kids will ever play with and I bet none of these parents would know how to make a hearty stew using cheap meat cuts and vegetables or chips from a potato. And why can't they have some responsibility with using contraception, producing kids they cannot afford and then complain they can't afford to eat. People seem to want to have kids without thinking of the long term consequences and responsibilities. Sorry if i have no sympathy, but, think before you procreate, just like we did in the past.
Me and my partner have the same budget or even less as that woman and we never struggle to buy food. We can even save a little. However we were both given some home economy lessons as children and we grew up with used clothes and toys, we both know how to cook, we only buy what we really need. I think it's not enough to just give people money if they live in the system that normalizes 'spending for keeping economy up'.
@@LWQ15881 There are unfortunate circumstances and then there is deliberately becoming pregnant for increased housing priority.. One of those is small minded.
Too many people use children as a career choice so they can get benefits and free housing. People are being rewarded for bringing children into poverty.
I’m a single parent so I understand the struggle but I have to ask as I’m confused why do these people have so many children when they clearly can’t afford them . I find that sad
A culture of Saving at least 50% of monthly income does not exist in UK like the Chinese , That why many people are too vulnerable to each and every crisis passing by
@@bubbles12o47 a lot of people feel they’d be better off not working but it’s not true. People that work have a chance to earn more, get promoted, train and get a better job. People who don’t work will only be able to live on what the government hands them out. Living with no personal responsibility, getting pocket money from the government sounds like a horrible way to live.
@@mattghostly5261 Earn more? What like £100? Plus I feel like a slave working serving millionaires. Busting my a working hard everyday just to give my wages to a millionaire landlord. Its seriously not worth it. Better off on the dole.
That’s fine if you’re happy to be homeless and miss meals. For people who want basic necessities, you will never save that much working a low wage job. Chinese middle class save a lot but it’s a different story for agricultural labourers.
Like seriously after the shit we've all been through, BBC is thinking oh wonder why so many children are living in poverty 🤔 come on you need to be on top of this! Report on not why this is happening. We all know or have pretty educated guesses. Report on who is responsible so they can be held accountable. That's your primary responsibility as news reporters.
I mean it’s investigative journalist roles to report on why this is happening. New reporters report the news, which in this case is recently released ons data for last quarter. Good points though more needs to be done.
Not trying to be insensitive and I understand this doesn't help these children now, but why are these parents so irresponsible. If you don't have much money why are you having children at all if you can't support them?
Also where are all the dads? Most of these poor families are single parents headed up by women only. Why so many relationships breaking down? Don’t the fathers have a monetary obligation to support their kids and have their wages garnisheed to help them?
@@patrickhiggins9633 I don’t understand how that works in the modern world as often in these places the more kids you have the better but in the west children are a huge burden and make you economically worse off
Why pay council tax? Why has Britain built aircraft carriers? The robberies in Britain is because of poverty. The gov. Declined to part in interview. Sad! People vote so it is up to the people.
These people are angels who are working to help others. They are the real HEROES. It is better to die rather than starving out of poverty every single day.
I'm crying I swear. These government officials all have their saved space in hell. They're just so heartless
❤🌻🍀Life is precious friend. People need to learn a whole lot more of self-help skills. Mothers need to nurse their babies, and learn how to make their own babyfoods at home. The adults need to grow victory gardens, food needs to be home cooked, simple foods made from simple ingredients. Foraging is a very precious skill, certainly worth learning. Any little jobs that bring some money in, are worth doing. Relatives and family need to stick together, and help each other. Friends need to help friends, and then folks if you really do need help find the food pantries, better than starving, that's for sure.
If you would help a friend in need if you could, then you also go and find help when you need it. Everyone is precious. Everyone.
Back in 1930s, price of a three bed house in Lonon including all the purchase costs was around £850.
Seventy years later, by the turn of the century, the same house costs £600,000. This means, the house prices have gone up by a staggering 700 times, while the wages have gone up by barely 100 times.
This explains the real cause of children's poverty. Period.
And there were no poor in the 1930s?
The beauty of Keynesian economics and an economy run on credit and easy money.
Your right it's a disgrace
@@rimworldlover indeed, credits allowed ppl to ger mortgage for 40 years and that is the price of the houses now, since view decades...
£850 taking in the fact that its before pre-decimalisation? Or in todays money
The two child limit on universal credit sounds good in theory however it won't stop people from having more than two kids they can't already afford. When I see families struggling with children - I feel sad for the innocent children who were brought into the world by parents already struggling.
I dont care, not my problem or responsibility!
But 1 of the women in the clip could afford those £100+ Nike vapourmax trainers ? Even if she did get them second hand which is unlikely they'd still be £60. How about someone teach them to get their priorities straight first ! Instead of splashing out on materialistic items when you can barely afford to eat....
People who keep having kids when They're already struggling are idiots and deserve to have their children taken away from them.
@@kelliejackson3563 Like it or not, it's ultimately everyone's problem. Issues like this will create ripple effects throughout society until it impacts everyone somehow.
@@Tim85-y2q no, it's not, people need to be responsible for themselves. the cost of living crisis will make the irresponsible people wish they hadn't relied on everyone else to prop them up, because we will no longer be able to.
I have sympathy with people struggling, I really do. But, it's limited when people with 4 kids are complaining. Why did you have 4 kids in the first place if you cant afford them? If you've got no money why are you starting a family and bringing a child into the world in poverty, or having more kids when you're already struggling with 2 or 3 kids? That sounds harsh but it's true. Having kids is a privilege, not a right.
The media narrative never raises this question, ever. Why? Because they're too scared of upsetting people who don't take responsibility for their own choices.. They never explore the premise that if you don't have any money, don't have more kids. Simple. Harsh reality deserves harsh truth.
Fight for accessible abortions then
@@comradealex6002 Why abortions. Just don't get pregnant in first place! It's not rocket science.
the poor people shouldn't have children narrative is eugenics & disgusting
Totally!
The answer to your comment is simple: it is not right to punish those 4 children because of their parents. They are born and it is too late. The state must help them so that they receive a good education and are healthy.
Note that the video is also talking about other use cases where a couple with one child got separated after their child was born. It is difficult to predict separation and people's circumstances can change. They could lose their job and fall into poverty later in their life.
I hope my comment will help you to understand that each family's situation is specific and you should not make generalities from one use case.
If that woman with a 7-month-old baby is a lone parent, why did she have another baby?
i really didn't want to blame anyone but i must blame at least her. She probably has these 4 kids with four different partners and that's alone is to much i mean are you 11 years old what is wrong with you and with the people/partner who agree to make you a baby in the first place...maybe she is doing this intentionally so she could get more and live on benefits till the rest of her life like a parasite... no i'm not sorry because there;re real people out there who need real help and they are in a real desperate needs
Protection in the first place should be
Women can't make babies by themselves. Why is it framed as just the woman's problem?
@@jazziegurlt22 I don't think disregard of using Protection in Intercourse counts as something one can shrug away. It's the Fault of both the Man & Woman.
Shocking to see the UK became such a third world country. If you look up north and outside London its even worse. The amount of homeless people and people on drugs you see on the streets is horrendous. 😢
London itself has gone to shit as well, treacherous living conditions in low income areas and ridiculous levels of crime
Lawyers are taking Ubereats delivery job. Carrying a big box on their back for 8 hours. To earn £3 per delivery job.
Life is tough even in London
@@fredgalaxy7632 Are you serious? Why do they have to take on that low paying job?..
@@jathebest2835 We don't...
@@ryadhasanahmed5443 honestly when I went to the coastal towns like hastings, I was shocked at how many alcoholics I saw, it's sad
Because rent is more than a mortgage!!! Madness
Well obviously, else why wouldn't anyone bother putting their house up for rent
Yeah but when a mortgage is, for example £400pcm, and the rent is set at £800.... And then you consider that rent payment doesn't count towards a persons so called "credit rating" even after 10/15/20 years. How would you feel if you were refused a £400pcm mortgage after coughing up £800 regularly for years? That system is deeply flawed.
@@barneyadams9869 so you want the bank to take more risks? Because you know the economic crash of 2008 was literally caused from that very thing
@@ryanbutler4221 Not exactly, interesting take though on being an apologist for big banking.
@@mj9663 an apologist haha, I just don't understand why people moan about everything. If you don't like banks then don't use them
If you cannot afford, why bring 4 innocent kids to this world ? Then complain that you only eat one meal a day?
I agree but ever thought some ppl become poor like lose their jobs after having their kids
Totally agree. Keep your trousers and knickers on.
It's harsh but I do ultimately agree. There's a distinct lack of self awareness and personal responsibility at the moment.
She says she is a single mum but had a baby 7 months go and her 7 year old daughter is her biggest support !!!!!! Wrog !!!!!
@@ivanaraskovic4969 She's just an awful, irresponsible, immature person who expects the tax payer to fix her mistakes.
One of the women in this report, said she only get’s support for the oldest two, and then said she has another one of three and one of seven months. That’s when I start to lose patience. I know people say that they shouldn’t be told how many children they should have, but to me, just be sensible. If you can’t feed the two you have already, why go on and have another two. NI’m quite prepared to be shouted down on this.
Maybe don’t have 4 kids if not financially capable. A child is a huge commitment and now they will suffer due to incompetence of the parent
im not saying people dont deserve any help from the gov in these harsh times, but how do you justify having 4 children while having a low income? i just can't wrap my head around that. and where are these fathers?
@Benjamin Miles it's an increasing issue, as a child minder I looked after a family of 5 kids, 1 mum, each had a different dad, 2 dads had no contact and constantly asked why daddy didnt love them ect, what can u say to that, "sorry kid no.3 ur mum prefers so shag any man that takes in interest and thinks trapping him will make him marry me" I have heard a lady say that as a "joke"
I strongly believe u shouldnt get benefits if u have more than 2 kids, chilren are a life long responsibility not kick them out at 16 for "me time"
If some "parents" cant even afford basic stuff like this lady said floor space, sofa and table then why the hell have a baby?
I saved 5k for my first child so that if I were to be laid off or some unexpected bill came, I didnt have to worry, plus using that year to save and mentally prepare was a great way to show to myself and my husband that we were ready
Humans have a biological urge to reproduce which is the reason we still exist after 2 million years. It doesn't go away just because "Let's be sensible under the economic ideology of those power".
Right. Also think ppl need to be incentivised to work. Welfare has a horrible track record. Government intervention exacerbates the condition. The Keynesian way has been proven not to work🤷🏾♀️
@@ReeRee_Donita Welfare has a wonderful track record. Millions are alive because of it. People are incentivized to work - it's called "wages".
But there still is a royal family that spend millions on weddings, birthdays, and events.
Disgusting isn't it?
Shameful.
politicians as well...with rich conglomerates ....
@@scifirealism5943 So it's their money. As long as they pay taxes, the rest can be spent.
@@salvatoremaglione6398 doesn't mean they're spending it wisely, which they aren't. And it isn't their money anyway.
Rich getting richer and the poor and becoming extremely poor
These lazy burdens to the public purse have NO RIGHT to seek to become rich.
We hope, that will change🙏
thats capitalism for you
- if youre gonna reply, guess what, no such thing as a "perfect" ideology exists!
@@guff9567 unlike your 1% Tory mates who you will happily give all our money away to. What a sheep
Untrue
why do women continue to have children when they can't afford the ones they already have? I really don't understand it.
These charities shouldn’t exist, the state shouldn’t be allowing people to fall in this poverty. We are seeing the effects of poverty.
The state is not responsible for someone getting pregnant four times. If you cant afford kids use contraceptives until you can. Or, have one kid that you can actually pay for and give a chance in life instead of four who will grow up in poverty and then expect the rest of society to pay for them.
Poor should work more! Even minimal wage when working 70 hrs/week in UK are enought! Europe makes people so lazy. I would love see them in Asian factories!
@@love__and__hope__ You are a hater. Asia will follow in one generation.
@@love__and__hope__ Single parents cannot afford to pay for childcare so that they can work.
Erm why should the government pay for peoples kids? Accountability.....hello
Now I live in Asia, I realise that large parts of the UK are just completely grim.
Where in Asia out of curiosity?
Me, too . I don't think I could ever go back there.
You can travel if is necessary, you can say you doing it business reasons
@@o.constantib3741 You realise most of Asia has far less homelessness and far less crime than Western countries? Anywhere in Japan, Korea, most of China, Malaysia, Singapore, most of the Gulf states are already better off. Some of these may appear to have lower 'GDP per capita', but the difference is the social structure (families) in Asia is largely intact, cost of living is much lower, governments actually function and try to take care of their people, and at the very least, they are building new infrastructure rather than let the existing rot etc.
@@pineapplesareyummy6352 of course I know that.... I was just curious about where as Asia is a big place. Cambodia is obviously very different to South Korea. I think all those things about Asia are true, particularly the family structure
Im not judging everyone here because i know some people are genuinely struggling and doing all they can but alot of the figures come from young single parents who prioritize cigarettes, booze, and tarting themselves up and other pleasures over the essentials and most important things they need to consider and they end up bringing kids into a family life which is a trainwreck. and i genuinely do feel sorry for the kids because i know its no fault of their own.
People have different priorities. Sometimes you will see them with cigarettes or fast food and then they need the food bank etc. Well this has to stop and feeding the kids comes first.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to be a single parent. Having a spouse that can help you by either going to work or taking care of the kids reduces so much stress. Very saddening that these interviewees are going through this hardship
just dont have kids
Most single parents are a result of bad decisions. Yes people die of natural causes or accidents but for every parent dying in a car accident, there are 10 cases where the people were unfit to be parents.
Seriously weird that people don’t seem to have any family to help?
@@lestrem11 Because they didn't ask the family before they got pregnant. Helping for a month or two is reasonable not 5-6 years.
I grew up in Polish village, till early 2000 we didn't had car, we are working class and one thing that always hits me that I had always access to health food - my granpa was growing his own cucumbers and tomatoes in garden, we had cow to get milk and they had potatoe fields. It was the time that junky food started to be everywhere but my mother was always provider of vegetables and quality food. They were/are hard working people.
It is so challenging to people to eat cheap and with health benefit but when you grew up in right environment with access to information about f.e. chemical components of food or how it is produced, it is easier even if you poor.
in Poland we might have been kids growing up in low income families but everyone at least owned their land and houses! No rent nor mortgages. I've never heard of rent until I came to UK. That's the cause of misery and poverty - most of the paycheque disappears into landlord's pocket...
Not most have gardens in UK to grow their own produce or own a home and I doubt any landlord will allow farm animals or their gardens ripped up for food produce or allowed to keep chickens or cows in their back gardens either under this goverment.
'potatoe' haha i like it
@@BlokeBritish Can you write Polish? Then shut up!
That is Poland. That was a different time. This is the UK and it's 2022....what you are saying is NOT applicable!. Sorry. Not everyone owns their own land or a big enough piece of land to grow enough to sustain a family. The weather is a factor also. To own a cow and have the space and resources for it would be significant! You can not compare .....
She had the first kid, had to stop working and struggled and then she went on having three more kids. Yeah, very smart thing to do.
so poor people aren't allowed to have kids because they're poor? Jesus Christ scary mindset that
@@JakeAldridge_ No, they are allowed as long as they can support them. But in this case this woman was already in financial troubles and yet she decided to have more kids. Not even one but three more. Do you seriously think those kids have the same chance in life as children from families that were thinking with their brains not with what between their legs? And please, don't start on contraceptives that don't always work as they should.
@@Ella0575 See why are we not allowed to talk about this? Iv'e personally made the decision to never have children because I have mental and physical health issues and I will probably always be relatively poor, why would anyone in their right mind think it's ok to bring a child into a situation like that? Yet STILL people think i'm strange for making this choice.
@@ggreen5943 Whenever anyone points out that it is not a good decision to have multiple children if one cannot afford to feed one there is always someone accusing those people of being biased against the poor. Pure demagogy.
@@ggreen5943 no
Poverty line. 375 a week for a couple with 2 kids under 5 after housing costs.that's not poverty. this programme is shyte
Most of these parents are selfish and irresponsible, are not thinking of the children but are probably caring for some loser at their kids' expense when HE should be working! I've seen this stuff so much during the course of my life: I live around it!
that's not true. The poverty line is 153 a week in Britain.
Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. - Proverbs 14:31, NIV
The real oppressors are feckless, irresponsible parents
funny how you find religion mos often in the poor and desperate..you think there might be a message there ?? take a good look at what religion has done to the Philippines...
the opiate of the masses...
@arl business it makes me sad to see what religion had done to the Philippines... Filipino are hard working decent people... but they easily believe nonsense, not just Catholicism. They believe there is all this Gold that Marcus has hidden away, millions of tonnes and when I point out that there has only ever been 183,000 tonnes ever mined, they get angry and still don't believe me. I think it is because their lives are so hard and they don't complain that they look for illogical hope. Maybe if they were more angry at the sort of lives they are forced to live, they would have a better chance of not believing nonsense ? I have a number of friends in the Philippines - never ask for anything and the nicest people you could meet...
The First Lady already has 4 kids and she barely looks over 30.
Why are these people complaining? The council owes them nothing and if they keep on popping out kids with no father support of course they are gonna be poor
Most single moms aren’t poor these people in the video are lazy
WELL BLOODY SAID KUDOS JACKIE
Maybe they could use contraception
Just because because you don’t see the father around doesn’t mean they’re not getting money from them, we have the csa and they let nothing slide, these women just want more money
Single mothers complaining cry me a river....
you know this all could be solved if the more poor people had less children why have children u can barely support if not at all?
Are you really that f@#king stupid?
RIGHT you `re poor eat cake have more kids get benefits. why is it called a benefit they help nobody
@@neilmiller3220 this is not about less children, this is about people who work and still can’t make ends meat. It makes no sense
6:18 support for someone who is pregnant and have toddler! How stupid you must to be to make another baby if you have such a tough situation? Single room, one bed. .... you can imagine how such a person will raise children.... such a lack of responsibility. Educate these people! Not only giving ! You will feel better but it is not solution! It harms more children and later society
Sad, but people need to evaluate having multiple children with having resources to care for them. Hate to be so harsh.
And the mental capacity for multiple children as well.
What’s sad is that we live in a country where you have to decide to bring life into the world or starve
Not at all, you make a sound argument! Why are they having so many children? Even in the best of times, having a child is terribly expensive!
Glad to see some common sense here. I was expecting to see an execution in the comments as I find people so entitled that they can’t see they’ve put themselves in a terrible financial situation, including their future child with limited prospects.
I think we need to evaluate the maximum wage, have a universal basic income and a realistic minimum wage.
Where were the husbands/ fathers in this report?
not known.....
The BBc hate men.
@@AlanWattResistance : Don't BBC love "BBC"? 🤣
BBC is a leftist criminal left wing shitstirring organisation.
Desertion maybe?
Tories have cut £37 billion from social security benefits system since 2010. Meanwhile the Tories have awarded a two year private test and trace contract that will cost £37 billion.
And the over 50's the old patriots don't give a crap. It's the older generation that have kept the tories in power for so long, screwed the younger generations and it's the older generation that is the most racist of them all. They still live in their not so great british empire days.
@@lionroar26 To be fair about half of those aged 50 - 60 voted Conservative according polling with a higher proportion in older age groups those aged 60 to about 75. The Greatest Generation those born during the interwar and war years in the 20th Century have many people who opposed Brexit and oppose Tories because of their experience.
"we invited the gvt but they declined" says it all really
Should have invited the absent fathers as well!
Why am I not surprised?
@@Crustywasp Correct, in all these documentaries they basically highlight single mother's. Neither the taxpayers or government should be replacing the financial resposibilities of these fathers who father these children. Does not matter if the relationship breaks down, the fathers of these children are responsible for their own offspring. The BBC and these single mothers point their fingers at the tax paying public and demand more. Why the government refuses to make these fathers responsible is mind boggling. Easy to enforce through National Insurance and Driver's License numbers. On the plus side it might make both parties involved in the making of a baby more inclined to take precautions and plan things out before casually getting it on with a partner who might not think longterm. Just an observation !
@@JohnnyWitney those single mothers should be sterilized right after they had the first baby.
@Gilly Maybe so but I don’t see what that has to do with the ‘get pregnant and pop out a kid just to get council flat and benefits’ mentality.
1.5 million live in poverty and the rest live just above the poverty line. Really no difference... When I was a child my mother was told that she earned 50 pence over the bread line so I wasn’t entitled to free school dinners. It’s laughable looking back.
I wish I could help everyone in this world I know it sounds absurd but I wish I could
No it doesn't its a natural human trait Empathy, its something sadly lacking from our government.
Just enjoy your life because it's the only thing you own
"whoever saves one life saves the world entire"
@@MikeWalmsley A quote that is flawed IMO, unless you apply it in a philosophic sense of the microcosm(Self) being representative of the macrocosm(Universe).
Jef bezos could probably save millions of ppl, of woild invest in them
Any economy is poor without healthy children
Healthy mental and educated. Benefits go from patents to children to grandchildren etc
What makes uk poverty even more cruel, is unlike in other places eg some countries in Africa, its invisible. You cant simply identify it just by seeing someone outside, as a result most people see the world through rose tinted spectacles and are unaware of it.
What kids experience in countries like the UK and the US is comparable poverty. It's one thing to grow up poor when everyone in the community is poor. It's quite another to grow up poor when many people surrounding you are comparably wealthy. Studies have shown that comparable poverty actually creates more problems and stress for the poor. It's terrible to look over and see other kids enjoying stability and wealth and to know that you've done nothing to deserve your lot in life
@Ash Hegde I don't agree in forced sterilization - if you want to see how that turns out there have been dozens of cases where countries have forced sterilization on women and the outcome was absolutely disastrous. Often vulnerable people/populations are the targets of these programs and it corrodes trust between medical systems and vulnerable populations. But I do agree that many of these family's problems are directly related with having children too young or when they were ill-prepared. I believe that MUCH better sex education/ family planning classes earlier in life and free/easy access to birth control and abortions for all people would help tremendously.
@@jip230 I don't care how much sex education is taught there will always be a large number of young girls getting pregnant because they refuse to deny themselves and the current boyfriend of a night (or many nights) of "pleasure".
Here is worse. They don’t have friends or a family and the weather sucks
@Ash Hegde the idea is quite good except it sounds like a way for some people to make money. Some women would literally turn up for 10 abortions a year !
Rent is extremely expensive compared to the average salary in UK. Also the childcare is ridiculous expensive which doesn't allow mothers to get a job! Come on UK gov you can do much more for your people!
Correct.
UK style of poverty is much different from absolutely poverty. I guess many people not in poverty around the world are still envying the poverty life in UK.
Exactly. They have benefits. Poverty everywhere else means no assistance at all, you're screwed.
This should not be a race to the bottom. Nobody should have to live under either of those conditions.
Ohmy gosh They are poor but can afford a stroller. That is amazing.
@@eduardochavacano That's the difference between poverty and absolute poverty. UK's poverty is relative poverty based on UK economy. The poverty line is even higher than "rich" line in many other countries.
@@eduardochavacano that is a bit harsh maybe they had to get it from a charity.
Nowadays, nurturing a child remains unaffordable in most countries. Think about it before becoming pregnant.
@Sam Foston dont expect the tax payer to pay for your kids tho
@Sam Foston everyone in this video put themselves if their position. Why should I have to pay when I've worked hard. if people don't want to work hard that's OK but don't ecspect the tax payer to let you live with everything you want
I don't care from which part of the world 🌍 you come from,being unproductive,cant provide for your own kids is the most painful feeling one could ever experience as a parent.....
A growing numbers of single parenting in the UK is a result of core concept of family system of a Husband and Wife relationship is in constant decline and child paying the price for not having a lawfully committed relationship between their parents.
This happens to due to poor sex and relationship education by parents and teachers leading to dumb decisions made by teenagers who have life consequences.
@@washimpatwary1446 I'm not convinced it's anything to do with teachers tbh, I think it started solely as a parenting fault, and as the years go by the problem spreads (in line with the rather large families that resulted). problem with teachers is their hands are so tied these days, they can't even discipline kids anymore, and the parents sure as hell aren't, so as the years go by we just get dumber, more selfish and out of control as a nation
Long Live the Queen! REALLY? the crown on her head would provide food and decent shelter for an entire community for a decade...
Exactelly !!!
rubbish she makes us a pile of money! with exports and tourists coming to see buck house etc
Sadly yes.
@@neilmiller3220 I wonder how the queen helps with exports and tourism. The Palace of Versailles receives 10 million tourists a year. The number of tourists visiting London - 18 million. One single former Royal Palace in France receives a number of tourists that is more than half of what the whole city of London receives.
And here is what the Independent has to say about the brit royal's:
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/biggest-myth-about-queen-her-contribution-british-economy-10491277.html
@@EliF-ge5bu Ye but we dont have the palace of versilles. Buckingham palace pales in comparrison.
There is no amount of poverty that will stop these poor ass people having 5 kids. That woman moaned tjat after bills she had 600 for the month. Firstly that is 600 pounds of tax payers money so she should be grateful and second thats more than some full time workers have after expenses.
no one deserve life in poverty but reality is the more children you have the more likely you will get in financial hardship. No one talks about it. Simply think twice if you actually can support your child. If you have doubts, don't make kids. it can be hard to rise just one kid. imagine how difficult it is if you have three. Governments all over the globe should encourage people not to have kids.
Your comment is vile nazi hatred... “don’t make kids”
People don’t choose to be in poverty they’re fall into poverty from uncontrolled circumstances. There’s families who’s parents were in employment then lost their job through a collapsing economy and redundancy.
For example, if we go into another covid lockdown because of the Omicron variant. How many pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes will close down because of the lack of customers?
People are literally only 1 or 2 paycheques away from falling into poverty.
@@notmenotme614 first of all I did not say just "don't make kids", I said "If you have doubts, don't make kids". There are two different meanings. I understand that people can be hit by uncontrolled circumstances but how many kids they have is in their control. It is more expensive to support three children than two, it is more expensive to support two children than one. Mathematics is quite simple here, everyone should understand. If someone's financial situation is so fragile that they live paycheck or two from falling into poverty and don't have let's say six month emergency fund (the more the better), then I have a legitimate question - Why they decided to become parents if their situation is so unstable? Unfortunately, a lot of people don't see that at least some of their troubles can be solved just by thinking in advance. This is why I think those who financially insecure should think twice before becoming a parent.
@@andrelukin6364 Wow , you got hit pretty hard by there, methinks an obvious Socialist who thinks everyone else's money should be theirs.
@@notmenotme614 thankyou some sense at last ,I actually cannot believe people think only the rich should breed? so dangerous
@@dickdastardly635 don't be so daft the only way the rich get rich is by exploiting workers the rich steal from the poor and it needs to be stopped .
The UK is a poor country pretending to be rich
I remember as a kid 30/40 years ago someone said to me one day England going to be as bad as America I never understood. I thought he ment guns and crime no it was the rich and poor divide
Me: laughs in Portuguese.
Just making a joke, not disagreeing with you.
The UKs rich we just invest our money in bullshit and help the rich get richer instead of help the ones in poverty we spend so much money on bullshit things like all these vaccines that we are vaccinating everyone with even tho they don’t stop the virus 😂
All the money is in London.
@@kratos.8151 it’s hidden ua-cam.com/video/-zT9pa5AOuE/v-deo.html
I watched a documentary about the history of council housing and public assistance in the UK and it’s no wonder. Do people really have a guaranteed roof over their head for life just because they qualified at one point? There were people who’d climbed out of poverty, purchased their own home, and now rent out their council flat at a profit. What a system...
Well they shouldn't be doing that. It's illegal to sub let a Council property.
I don’t understand why people *have more Children* and they know that they can barely feed themselves.
Can’t they wait til time is right when they are financially stable?
That's the problem in a nut shell!
Muslims had at least 6 children that they can't afford!
My children, a boy and a girl, are 40 and 36 and when I look at what is classed as child poverty today I realise that my children were brought up in poverty in the 80's. I would have liked more children but I stopped at 2.
I sometimes think about that. My parents were 16 and 18 yrs old with my sister and I. We didnt realize but I can see now that we did live what would be considered poverty. I always wanted the breakfast cereals i saw on tv, i remember my mom tried to cut up pieces of bread with sugar and milk... nothing at ALL like Frosted Flakes. I'm in no way downplaying this its hard out here. Sad,
The £157.50 bbc licence fee is a massive financial burden for those who are struggling , think how much more fruit and veg you could buy with that.
these people buying cigs and drinks tho
@@Daniel-gs9eh I put fruit and veg in to be kind, but your spot on.
Do those in poverty still have to pay TV license?
@@meaw2m19 Yes, no one escapes.
@@Daniel-gs9eh Not all of them though
It's simple really, when poor people have kids the kids are poor too.
So many poor people is a shame to a country that's not poor.
Because of how things went
The UK has alot of underclass immigrants as they are better of in England's econemy than there own
But they do feel worse in england
After paying towards her rent that Mother of four had £600 a month to pay bills, buy children's clothes, and buy food but couldn't manage! She needs financially educating I'm afraid. She needs to learn what to shop for to make healthy meals, go in charity shops to buy clothes and cut down on bills as much as possible. Bet she's got a mobile phone with decent data on it and probably some form of paid TV channels etc I could easily manage on that much a month and have four well dressed, healthy children.
1. The root cause of child poverty is when people have children they cannot afford.
2. There are now record job vacancies. We need to get the work-shy off benefits and into work. Workfare is better than welfare.
If you can't afford children and live in a high poverty area then DON'T HAVE THEM!!!! Why have children if you are poor? Breeding irresponsibly breeds poverty! Poor, irresponsible and dysfunctional parents perpetuate the cycle of poverty. These selfish parents bring unfortunate and innocent children into a cold world (and children have needs such as warmth, food and shelter) but instead these awful parents dump their problems onto their the children by bringing them into their parent's shitheap of an existence. If only childbearing received the same level of scrutiny as getting a mortgage then maybe there'd be fewer children in need?
100% agree. How on earth do these children have a chance in their future? Coming from unstable homes, with single parents, finical pressures isn't good environment and is destroying our economy and future. The cycle will continue and continue and continue. Our welfare system is dated, our government wasteful and spineless. If we get mad and raise our voices, we are the mad ones! It's absolutely insane.
The government let this happen to Britain
Agree all governments have let this happen. Only Gordon brown as chancellor tried to change things.
@Shauntwed 87 Sold to Anonymous buyer
Agreed and the government includes the BBC
Aye British people fuck the BBC and the government the BBC have put there prices up haha fuck the new world order guy's
@@sarahluther9671 so nothing whatsoever to do with young girls having unprotected sex and thus unwanted babies, fathers shirking their responsibilities, abandoning their family and blowing all their money on drugs, couples having large families simply to try and cream more benefits from us tax payers, etc etc etc. sure the government haven't got it right, but the public sure as hell aren't helping the situation!
" i have one meal a day, with 3 kids" maybe dont pump out kids on benefits in first place?
Absolutely agree.
If you're gonna breed em don't expect the taxpayers to feed em .
So why were all the politicians against Marcus Rashford's proposal?
Because a black footballer trying to help starving kids was something they thought was a joke apparently. They only got onboard to not look like they were against the project purely down to media pressure, they were basically trying to cover their own backs.
Rashford is sadly just doing it for fame and making a publicity stunt, explains why he hasn't given a single penny of his own salary to help but asking other vulnerable people if they can pay
@Murray David sorry but seriously? Please tell me how was my comment racist? Where?
The government's position is to give money to parents to pay for children's food. I believe it would be better to use the money to feed the children directly. Parents might spend the money on on mobile phones new TVs drugs or alcohol rather than buying food for their children.
@Murray David shut up you idiot
Half of these kids. Live off the cash in hand economy. So many I know of and some are just unfortunate.
My brother works for a UK food charity. When he began a few years ago it was small, and he put in just a few hours each day. Now he simply cannot work hard enough, and he has complained of complete exhaustion. The situation is terrifying. Why? I have pondered this at length.
Part of the reason seems to be that the political structure of the UK is obsolescent, and it fuels polarisation. The first-past-the-post system means that a political party can have a clear majority in the UK Parliament without having the confidence of most voters. There is rarely any need for horse-trading and compromise. A party with a majority can implement strong policies that aid one part of society in the short term, while damaging another. The system encourages infantile jibes, jeering, catcalls, and insults. It is often impossible to accept that the MPs involved hold degrees from the UK's top universities; they sound so damn supercilious, self-satisfied, arrogant, and downright bloody stupid.
The politics of the House of Commons has every appearance of being egocentric, and driven by a "winner-takes-all" mentality. Indeed, the desire to be the "king of the castle" often seems to obscure the fact that Parliament exists to help ordinary British citizens. (Yes, it actually does!) People such as Jacob Rees-Mogg often do not seem to comprehend why they are there; the electorate and their pressing needs seem to be an irrelevancy compared with the need to feed the over-inflated ego.
The cobwebbed House of Lords is ridiculously archaic. 751 unelected members for 68 million people?! Appearance fees? Food and drink paid for by taxpayers? The US Senate has 100 elected members for a population 5 times as big, and US senators know that being a senator is their job, not just a pastime for which they receive a daily fee greater than the amount received by a poverty-stricken family of 4 to survive for a week! Being granted political power on the basis of "blue blood" is not just an affront to everyone else, it is an obscenity. Aristocracy and royalty are obsolescent, fuddy-dud anachronisms that must GO!
When interacting online I am always struck by the number of UK citizens who appear to be very badly educated and very badly informed. (I attended local government schools, by the way.) I have not yet interacted with a Brexiteer who has at least a basic grasp on economics, and one would assume that every school-leaver would know these principles. The extents of illiteracy and innumeracy are shocking. German school-leavers are (on average) streaks ahead of their British counterparts. Many young Germans have much better English than their British counterparts. They are also much more positive people, with much greater social maturity, and possess the kind of level-headed self-confidence that somany British youngsters lack. Indeed, Brexit itself can be seen to be a manifestation of a deep-seated lack of self-confidence: an inability to engage with strangers to sort out mutual issues to the benefit of all, in favour of withdrawing from the world and turning inwards, like a desperately shy and gauche teenager.
Apart from anything else, I believe the UK's current stagnant political system has fed nationalism in Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, where people have not seen any closure of the social gulf engendered by the system. The failure of the UK to wake up, grow up, and sweep away its appallingly archaic politico-socio-economic system will lead to the end of the UK. WAKE UP!
@Silvestre Lockdown was merely the push over the edge! The UK has been appallingly divided for decades; indeed, the UK has never overcome the extraordinarily stratified society bequeathed by the Victorians. Politicians blurt endless, fatuous claptrap about "British" values and rebuilding a great nation, but the reality is different. Many Danish, German, and Dutch children have much better English than British children of the same age, and better mathematics, too! In the UK I witnessed or experienced an amazing number of criminal incidents, all perpetrated by young, lost, purposeless hoodlums. The UK has a socio-economic gulf that limits fair pay, decent housing, and good schools. My parents, brother, and myself have all had to struggle for months, sometimes years to effect the simplest transactions, such as transferring bank accounts, closing gas accounts, and opening new utilities accounts! SUCH SHOCKINGLY BAD, ILLITERATE, TARDY SERVICE, COUPLED WITH ALL THE VANDALISM, RACISM, SMASH-AND-GRABS, AND ASSAULTS* (!) OF WHICH I AM AWARE, MAKES IT 100% CLEAR THAT THE UNITED KINGDOM IS ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING A BACKWARD THIRD WORLD DUMP. GERMAN AND DUTCH SCHOOL-LEAVERS FROM POOR BACKGROUNDS ARE WAY AHEAD OF THEIR BRITISH COUNTERPARTS. The UK has pathetically low social mobility and social cohesion. I DON'T THINK THAT BRITISH POLITICIANS APPRECIATE JUST WHAT A BACKWARD, INWARD-LOOKING, AND DEEPLY DIVIDED DUMP THE UK IS BECOMING. Last month, UK food-and-drink exports to the EU plummeted by more than 75% - a direct result of having an electorate and politicians unschooled in basic economic principles. (I have been horrified by the blundering twerps churned out by Oxford and Cambridge Universities to rule Britain for decades: half-baked bloody nitwits hopelessly lacking in empathy, sympathy, basic socio-economic know-how, and especially the ability to handle foreign relations. I have lived abroad for decades, and the British people just don't seem to realise how jaw-droppingly inept their governments have been in international diplomacy.) *Including unprovoked assaults on my brother (three against one), and a good friend, (British skin-heads wielding bicycle chains).
You make a valid point about the farcical FPTP electoral system. I wish people would wake up to this and realise how undemocratic and unrepresentative it really is. We really do need to change this system!
It's a shame you then politicise your argument with a tired cliché, conflating Brexit voters with a lack of education and comprehension of basic economics. I voted Brexit, I have a degree in Politics and an A Level in Economics. So, it is a little insulting to lump us all together as uneducated morons. Sadly, this is all too common from Remainers :(
I would also add to the argument that has been put forward a feeling I have in regard to the UK. To me theUK both politically, socially and economically has simply become too short termist in terms of approach. Everything is planned according to five year election cycles rather than preparing for the future. This is why infrastructure, education and the economy is failing no long term strategy is in place to foster and develop these. I not long a go noticed when I spoke about language barriers in the UK and how language teaching needs to be improved to improve our relations. I was laughed at and told it was a stupid idea as it would take too long. To me it is the short term nature of decisions that is wrecking the UK with few able to think ahead longer term.
As someone originally from the Netherlands, I think a major issue for the UK is the dire quality of the schools in the country. The whole school system is politicized and the Grammar schools, which were excellent for social mobility, and still are in Europe (NL has such a system, Germany has it, in East Germany they specifically made a point of having them, after they had comprehensive school like education factories under soviet rule) are replaced by low quality education. You need a lot of money to have an education that is comparable with what you get in Europe. If I were in charge, the first thing I'd do is bring back the Grammar schools, especially in the North of the UK, reform the university system, which often offers useless courses and puts young people in terrible debt.
Another issue is the NHS, which seems a religion in this country, but actually offers by far the poorest quality of healthcare in North West Europe. The system is in desperate need of reform, perhaps a sensible privatisation, where poorer families are subsidised to purchase healthcare, like in NL, would work better. This means richer people can pay a bit more into the system, which will help to fund better hospitals and refurbishments that are often badly needed.
But, I also think that people here have to accept that they are on the periphery of Europe. The south of Britain is close enough to Europe to benefit from trade and so on. But the north of the UK is not, and will always be relatively poorer than the rest. What needs to be done is that the lowest level of income is at an acceptable level. I think proper education could be a way out in the long run.
As for your political system, I actually think the idea of having an MP that is accountable to a local area is not a bad thing.
@@91Durktheturk DUW! Mag ik het dan aannemen dat U Nederlands-sprekend bent? Het is een van enkele talen die ik heel goed versta en praat. Nu en dan lees ik Nederlandse (en Vlaamse) kranten om op de hoogte van evenementen te blijven. Education, at all levels, has always been a headache, everywhere. The 1971 British Cohort Study proved that the early years are of extreme importance. Children's abilities diminish if they do not receive adequate attention, stimulation, and instruction when they are very young. Irreversible damage is inflicted by an inferior home environment and poor education by the end of primary school - indeed, even by 7 years old. Children from middle and upper class homes tend to have rich home environments: books, music, videos, computers, and unlimited access to the internet. In such homes parents spend more hours with their children, and family outings to interesting places and holiday trips are more common. Parents tend to be more knowledgeable, better able to help with homework, and more aware of how their children's education will impact their future lives. Children with low income parents often have much less stimulating environments, and often suffer from the lack of the most basic resources, such as a quiet, safe place to study. Home life is often disrupted by alcoholism, drug addiction, and/or domestic violence. The British Cohort Study found that children who initially tested high for basic abilities, gradually slipped backwards relative to their age group if they were members of low income families living in deprived or depressed areas. Children who at first tested low, but who were members of high income families living in affluent areas where a privileged lifestyle is common, gradually rose relative to their age group. Logical reasoning ability, (IQ), for example, rose by up to 15 points for privileged primary school children, and decreased by more or less the same amount among deprived children. Many children who are initially bright, who ought to be able to enroll in Britain's leading "Russell Group" universities, fall through the cracks. Indeed, the situation for bright children in deprived homes and low income areas is terrible. Their lives are "stunted", and many know it. Their frustration plays out in various dreadful ways, which I became aware of when living in Uxbridge. I repeatedly encountered vandalism, car theft and joy riding/car-trashing, and drug addiction when living there in 2000-2. While high school is an issue, by that stage the damage has been done! (I understand why you think that grammar schools provided a good education, but while their academic approach was good for some children, it was rotten for others. If you know something about how children learn the same things in very different ways, you'll understand why. The "11+" was also hated by many people, as it seemed to "pigeonhole" children much too early, casting a long shadow across young lives.) There are different systems of proportional representation. Scotland uses the "de Hondt" system, which allows for both local constituency and regional political representatives, while respecting proportional representation. As someone who has read the details of the "packages" paid to many British directors and top managers, and who has repeatedly and directly witnessed the appalling results of the British socio-economic system, I believe that it simply cannot end too soon!
My name is Indira from baktinusa vocation school. I really feel sorry for children in the UK, they cannot feel the joy of childhood like children in other countries. I hope that in the future there will be a bright spot for them and they will be the next generation of their nation and will not feel poverty again.
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@Victoria E Get real Victoria and stop generalising.
@Victoria E What's fake about it?
If people in the developed countries are facing these hardships, can't imagine the scene in poor countries.
I support family in poverty living in the Philippines, it’s really really bad.
If you think it’s difficult to bring up children in poverty， have pressure on life, why did you give so many births? 4 small children with a couple.....its hard and difficult for any people in any country!!!!
Take your responsibility and control birth!!!!
The BBC won't bring up that question tho cos they're spineless and it's not Politically Correct to do so.
Fight for accessible abortions then
@@comradealex6002 They are accessible but some people think it's their right to produce as many children as they want and let the state pay for the upbringing.
while it’s a valid thing to consider, it’s not the children’s fault that they were born, so it’s important to provide support for the poor for the sake of the children. Plus in china the one child policy failed it’s people in the long run. Now elderly have very few youth to pre retirement aged people supporting their needs. You have one child, supporting their parents and because of the good health of chinese people, they will likely be supporting their grandparents too, sometimes even great grandparents so it’s not completely madness to have lots of children. And in circumstances like this, you gotta have multiple children just to be sure atleast one of them turns out okay ish. Poverty is more likely to expose your children to the world of drugs and gangs etc and if you loose your only child, you have nothing left. Especially when many loving parents only have their children to live for. If you loose all your children, it’ll probably feel like you lost everything.
@@reylime2991 My comment was about the UK not China. While I understand and agree that a family's circumstances can change because of job loss or illness etc, there are many families here that just pop out children without a thought about how they can afford them and rely on the state. Perhaps it depends on what part of the country you live in as to whether you'll see this happening. It happens where I live. Youngsters have babies so that they can have social housing and all the trimmings from the state.
The sheer stupidity of seeing a country with a shortage of young people allowing its extremely valuable children to fall into extreme poverty.
Are they TRYING to depress their dangerously low birth rate?
Low birth rates aren't 'dangerous'. That's a myth perpetrated by consumer capitalists and mainstream politicians and economists who believe that perpetual economic growth on a planet of finite resources is a desirable measure of progress, when it's totally unsustainable. Don't believe everything you read in the mainstream media.
Where do you get the idea that the birth rate is too low? All countries with very high birth rates are very poor.
TLG except the uk birthdate is below the replacement rate...
We cannot grow infinitely on a planet with finite resources..... I really don't know what's hard to understand about that.
Why do people have children? I took the decision a long time ago that I could not guarantee that if I had kids that I could always provide for them. Most people don’t think, they just procreate and who suffers? The children. So for the sake of the children stop having children. I pity the children but I feel zero for idiot parents. It is not rocket science things have been getting more expensive for a long certainly as ince before you were born and certainly befyyou decided to have kids.
Why have so many children if you can’t afford them ?
Because you pay for them 😉
@@Mtb-cp6gz I don't .
@@lordwinderemere so you've never paid any form of taxes?
Because some prat invented child benefits.
It's heartbreaking gvt should help but people shouldn't have kids if they don't have stable means to support them. It's selfish to bring them into the world and then deprive them of the good life.
Governments would go broke in helping the poor and especially single mothers because women are super super expensive my friend was 2,500 a month for one kid and still had to buy school stuff and whatever else he needed while she didn't spend the money on the kid just her shopping sprees. Now times that 100× and that's how alot of women are nowadays. But I would mind if say her husband or the father dies then yes she and the kids should get a little assistance but we get these girls getting knocked up just so they don't work
food prices will probably increase as suppliers pass on the cost of red tape from Brexit :(
Food prices are going to sky rocket because of money printing not brexit
I hope so... then maybe the plague of obesity would reduce...
alot of these situations could have been avoided with better choices. IMO one should avoid at all costs to be single parent for 1 child, how does 1 end up multiple children without having a partner to support.
I agree 1 is bad enough but any child after the first is a lifestyle choice
Why do people have so many children if they can't afford them. One after the other !! If they stop at 3 or 4 kids, they can also stop at 1 or 2. Never heard of birth control ?
we, the idiot tax payers, pay for them, so why not? Kay take birthcontroll pills please....
There are some that can afford them at the time then something unexpected happens, but it does look like there are those having more kids in order to claim more benefits...
Unfortunately, I never could afford have children and it's very sad, very painful and depressing.
@@fatimabarreto6687 hi fatima - I'm so sorry- may GOD give you peace and strength and bless you always.
They can't claim benefits after the second child.
I feel those pain We are all In the same boat
You could give some people £500 a week and they still would waste it and have none left at the end of the week
Financial management and life skills aren't on the national curriculum. Maybe we should change that.
So true
Be a single female severely sick & disabled parent you’re just treated with contempt by local authorities and benefit agencies.. it’s dreadful so many poor children suffering and their parent/s suffering too :(
Nobody likes to take individual responsibility, just blame the government
If everyone was like you, I bet there wouldn't be any poverty anywhere, eh?
@@s.r.howell1297 that unfortunately is an impossible dream. Trust me I grew up in it
@@user-iz9co4qf6z I'm glad we agree that "pull 'em up by the bootstraps" is for many, an impossible dream.
@@s.r.howell1297 and we all have to take individual responsibility if we're a idiot at school trying to drag decent people down the gutter with you and you end up on benefits
@@user-iz9co4qf6z Except that it's not that simple is it? You're just looking for a quick way to shrug off a serious problem.
G-d bless these parents! We have been largely a one-parent icome family since pandemic. Being a registered nurse means that I'm very blessed with my income and we are by and far very fortunate compared to so many families living at or below poverty. It still doesn't make it easy for us but it is so important to reach out to others-especially our elderly!
I never hear anything about fathers in the UK having to pay child support. It's always the moms going it alone struggling financially to take care of the kids. So, are the fathers legally required to give financial support to the mother of the kids? If fathers are required to provide financially support of the kids to the mother is there a legal punishment for failing to support their kids? In the USA the fathers can be jailed as a last resort for "deadbeat" dads. The courts prefer the fathers work instead of serving jail time, but if the fathers' fail to comply then jail it is.
If they leave .. unless u chase them for it you don't get anything
(I'm one mum going without child support because of domestic violence and don't want him thinking because he pays he must see my child who he hurt and nearly killed (I don't have any witnesses or physical evidence because I didn't record anything or take pictures stupidly so he got anyway with it all).... rn he hasn't contacted me or the courts for contact so I'm not going to chase him for it for the sake of £30 in most cases unless there earning big money and are decent people you will never get financial help from them)
@@alison2984 Why did you have a kid with him?
I'm genuinely amused because I see this so much. Now mothers who complain about deadbeat fathers, yet had kids with him anyway.
I do not get it why do you girls constantly spread your legs to the dregs of society?
Why are so many of these parents single mothers?
Because they refuse to have protected sex, while fully knowing that partner isn’t the committed type,,,
I'm not sure if the single parent numbers are getting higher or not but our younger population sure seem to be dropping in IQ alarmingly
Exactly
I expect the ones that really want out are looking in the wrong places and need a mentor and when they go to seek help are met with bad advice in the form of working out income and outgoings based on Thier benefits getting a part time job ect.You can never break free with that advice.You make things 100x harder when you have kids without having a good £50,000 savings first.With a good 5 year plan you could get out of it.The issue is as soon as you save over £16,000 you lose your benefits and if your a single mum who can't work full time then you have to start using your savings.So you would need a way to not touch the wealth until you can get to the £200,000+ mark
@@MysteryWorld55 I am not sure if "refuse" is the right word. This rather shaws how many males are not committed.
No fathers on the scene
Fight for accessible abortions then
You should be able to work as a parent and afford looking after a child.
We forget there was a time when only men had to work and it was enough!
Costs of living go up while wages are stagnant.
Fathers are ideal ofc, but its not gonna fix everything, it’s an economy issue at heart.
Some might be out working hard in poorly paid jobs but as a nation that does not have a helpfull culture around relationships there are bound to be a lot of single parents.
@zum zum There is a government agency that does chase up fathers & pressure them to pay actally but one income, assuming the chap is working, does not really spread to look after twp households.
There's unacceptable level of poverty and hunger, but the politicians have no problem in finding and wasting billions of dollars on senseless wars and arms.
UK is such a democratic country, why there are poor people?
The way royalists talk about how amazing the royal family is for England, you'd think it would be an absolute utopia. But it's not.
Lmaoo yess Like y’all got a whole queen who has houses to spare meanwhile her family bring in millions for themselves
@@mikaylakimberly RIGHT. And that's not even mentioning the fact that their wealth, privilege, and empire was built off riches from the slave trade and colonization.
Real cause is that back in 1930 UK had the empire was living on the backs of people it had subjugated. The British took over lands after killing, driving away and talking over land and and resources from others such as australia, New Zealand, Canada, india and various other places. It has access to free or extremely cheap resources. They were doing great as leaches sucking others blood. But now the empire is gone and they don’t know how to deal with real life .
@@amyparker9816 Real cause is that back in 1930 UK had the empire was living on the backs of people it had subjugated. The British took over lands after killing, driving away and talking over land and and resources from others such as australia, New Zealand, Canada, india and various other places. It has access to free or extremely cheap resources. They were doing great as leaches sucking others blood. But now the empire is gone and they don’t know how to deal with real life .
@@user-wm2tw 100% this
One meal a day?
Then how is she overweight?
While we are fighting and ridiculing each other, we will never see the real criminals at work.
Harsh. But I assume a lack of excercise
Snacks don't count
And there we have it, none of these parents are underweight and neither are their children, but, the media and do gooders don't want to acknowledge this. Note the really nice and not cheap backpacks those little girls have.
Yeah, one meal but it's *HUGE!*
When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.
Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country
I saw the same in the north of UK, boarded up houses sometimes meant a collapsed coal mine under the house making the dwelling uninhabitable.
sex education? Condoms, birth control pills? stop blaming the government Right now the biggest problem we have to worry about is climate change due to the fact that there are too many people.
THANKS SO MUCH MUM AND DAD
Why you complaining about money when you have made the decision to have 4 kids? Can we get child services on people who have children with no means/intentions of supporting them.
What do you propose? take the kids away from them?
@@suzesiviter6083 shoot the parents.
@@darraghwalsh8534 You are like some brainwashed character straight out of the pages of a fascist novel. God know what your parent were/are like.
@@suzesiviter6083 I dunno, shooting the parents is a tad extreme, but I think he is on the right track....force them to be sterilised if they're incapable of acting rationally perhaps
@@martinarscott3524 I see the point, but poor people have as much rights to have kids as the rich, some poor families have better parents than rich ones.
So let's stop sending aid abroad and start looking after our own poor people at home
You never see people who say they live in poverty buying their clothes in charity shops. I grew up in the 60s and 70s in a divorced single parent family on benefits, my father left and we never saw him again. Food was more expensive in real terms and while we didn't have things like colour TVs or a home phone or new clothes that often, but, we never went hungry, even if lunch was a tomato or beetroot sandwich, which are actually delicious. My mother knew that once the money was spent that was it, so she budgeted, something today's parents appear to be incapable of.
I do not believe this woman has one meal a day and take note that these people are never filmed in their homes, always on their doorsteps, this is probably to hide the stuff they do have while they claim poverty, I bet that there are more toys in their houses than the kids will ever play with and I bet none of these parents would know how to make a hearty stew using cheap meat cuts and vegetables or chips from a potato. And why can't they have some responsibility with using contraception, producing kids they cannot afford and then complain they can't afford to eat. People seem to want to have kids without thinking of the long term consequences and responsibilities.
Sorry if i have no sympathy, but, think before you procreate, just like we did in the past.
The poverty in the 60s and 70s was much worse. Also housing conditions much worse than today. I agree with a lot that you have said .
Me and my partner have the same budget or even less as that woman and we never struggle to buy food. We can even save a little. However we were both given some home economy lessons as children and we grew up with used clothes and toys, we both know how to cook, we only buy what we really need. I think it's not enough to just give people money if they live in the system that normalizes 'spending for keeping economy up'.
So kind of you! Such a good woman!
The reasons why the government limited children tax credit to two children unfortunately those in work have to suffer.
Anyone remember waiting to have children until you could afford to provide for them?
Yeah AND why are men allowed to walk away from their kids and NOT PAY towards ANYTHING?!. America you get arrested.
@@wonderwoman7443 they're not. If proven to be father they have to pay child support.
Small minded comment
I would love to get married and have kids but can't afford it. I will not put them through a poor set up.
@@LWQ15881 There are unfortunate circumstances and then there is deliberately becoming pregnant for increased housing priority.. One of those is small minded.
Too many people use children as a career choice so they can get benefits and free housing. People are being rewarded for bringing children into poverty.
just like africa
#TIL
Yeah I think the people in this video feel very "rewarded".
Education is the best way out of poverty.
I’m a single parent so I understand the struggle but I have to ask as I’m confused why do these people have so many children when they clearly can’t afford them . I find that sad
Because they can, socialist govt pay them on expense of working men. Those leeches need to be stopped
She probably had them before her circumstances changed. She obviously had them with someone for a start, and he apparently bailed.
Because we got to pretend that only the migrants face hardship 🙄
A culture of Saving at least 50% of monthly income does not exist in UK like the Chinese , That why many people are too vulnerable to each and every crisis passing by
Most people don’t earn enough to do this. 10-20% is more realistic.
Culture? many people are paid so low, they can barely afford to live never mind save.
@@bubbles12o47 a lot of people feel they’d be better off not working but it’s not true. People that work have a chance to earn more, get promoted, train and get a better job. People who don’t work will only be able to live on what the government hands them out. Living with no personal responsibility, getting pocket money from the government sounds like a horrible way to live.
@@mattghostly5261 Earn more? What like £100? Plus I feel like a slave working serving millionaires. Busting my a working hard everyday just to give my wages to a millionaire landlord.
Its seriously not worth it. Better off on the dole.
That’s fine if you’re happy to be homeless and miss meals. For people who want basic necessities, you will never save that much working a low wage job. Chinese middle class save a lot but it’s a different story for agricultural labourers.
Like seriously after the shit we've all been through, BBC is thinking oh wonder why so many children are living in poverty 🤔 come on you need to be on top of this! Report on not why this is happening. We all know or have pretty educated guesses. Report on who is responsible so they can be held accountable. That's your primary responsibility as news reporters.
I mean it’s investigative journalist roles to report on why this is happening. New reporters report the news, which in this case is recently released ons data for last quarter. Good points though more needs to be done.
They are responsible for this brainwashing ppl to vote agains their interest...
They are on top of this you idiot. This is all deliberate!
Not trying to be insensitive and I understand this doesn't help these children now, but why are these parents so irresponsible. If you don't have much money why are you having children at all if you can't support them?
Also where are all the dads? Most of these poor families are single parents headed up by women only. Why so many relationships breaking down? Don’t the fathers have a monetary obligation to support their kids and have their wages garnisheed to help them?
@@lindahigham4507 they probably had children without being married so the father has no legal responsibility
@@patrickhiggins9633 I don’t understand how that works in the modern world as often in these places the more kids you have the better but in the west children are a huge burden and make you economically worse off
It is a disgrace when you don't see or hear of the dad's helping to provide for these poor children.
Yes the Dad’s need to be found and made to pay for their children.
Why pay council tax? Why has Britain built aircraft carriers? The robberies in Britain is because of poverty. The gov. Declined to part in interview. Sad! People vote so it is up to the people.
2020 to 2030 big time change coming
I'm genuinely curious as to what you think that change will be?
@@martinarscott3524 agenda 21
Yep. Order your burquas
The great reset
Poverty is big problem around the world the age under 5 child but some organization doing a fabulous work
How can you seriously ask this question, knowing full well the answer to it? It's ridiculous.
Thank god someone else thougt the same, I do not know how the Beeb has the gall.
@Gary Fletcher Another 77th 2020 profile, hardly an intelligence unit are you.
Is there no child support in the UK?
No, just sperm donors, apparently!
Where are the father's of the four children in the family ? Someone has to take care of the children one makes.
Exactly!!!! Where are the fathers of all those children? Nobody ever asks that.
Where are the contracts with the Father i.e. Marriage Certificate. I am not mocking anyone. I am serious.