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Richey Edwards.quote:"There's an awful lot of white, British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under, but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas"
This is going to sound waaaaay corny sorry....but the whole bringing kids up in poverty thing - money, tellys, consoles mean nothing as long as they have love, parents that pay attention to them, that read to them, play with them etc. Obviously being able to feed them helps like too...but you know what I mean.quote:Originally posted by electric6:Richey Edwards.quote:"There's an awful lot of white, British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under, but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas"
quote:Originally posted by Trollop:
*mumbles into imaginary fag packet phone*
quote:Originally posted by electric6:
Also another thing that's worth thinking about is poverty is relative.
quote:with no central heating, no boiler, no phone and no car until i was about 7, I wore hand me downs or clothes from Jumble sales mostly but we didnt go hungry and i was happy
These days there are so many benefits for people with kids - I know a couple who have a baby and neither of em work and they have everything they could want.
quote:Originally posted by machel:quote:Originally posted by Darthhoob:quote:Originally posted by Daniel J*:
Not having a computer and an internet connection for school-age kids is poverty of a sort.
when i was at college all my assessments and stuff had to be done on a computer...my family couldn't afford a computer. there was an internet cafe...but it was expensive, i had a friend with a computer...but i couldn't be round hers everynight as she was also doing a course and needed it. my parents got e a computer eventually...but it cost "20 and was older than me
i wouldn't say i was in poverty...but it definately was horrible to be the only one in my class without a computer...i had to work twice as hard to do that same work
my friends son is going to secondary school next year and the maths homework HAS to be completed on the computer, they don't have one at home and so he must give up his lunch hour to complete it, his mum was worried about him being picked on for having free school meals but now she is more conerned about this, all the "low income/poor" kids will be easily identified and they will certainly believe they are in poverty.
