A quarter of New Zealand children are growing up in poverty and that’s around 270,000 underprivileged kids!
Child abuse, neglect and thousands of children going to school without even having had a breakfast. It makes me so angry!! There are now almost 34,000 more children dependent on beneficiary parents than when National came to power in 2008.
Inequality is growing faster – when are we going to break this cycle?
We hear so much about lifting these children out of poverty and yet no-one talks about stopping them getting into this situation in the first place. Talk about the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff! We are not a third world country and contraception is freely available yet the words “family planning” are seldom heard these days. We need to STOP our children having children is what I’m saying.
As I see it there are many options available. 1) Not getting pregnant in the first place is a good one. 2) Abortion is available for those who choose that path. 3) Babies can be put up for adoption – there are many, many couples (and I stress couples) who would love and care for a child or 4) Each baby has two parents (although making males pay for their fun seems difficult these days even though they have an IRD number where deductions could be made at source) plus each child usually comes with two sets of fairly young grandparents. Someone has to step up to the mark here and take responsibility for their own actions.
The growth of our underclass will not stop until we change this social experiment that is obviously not working.
What was once a safety net is now given to any pregnant female as a right, but far from doing these children any favours we are condemming them to a life of increased poverty, deprivation and neglect.
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