I read that some schools are now having to feed their children because ‘they come to school hungry'.
Struth, from what I've seen, schools are having enough trouble teaching their kids let alone feeding them.
I wonder if their ‘parents' have ever attended a family budget advice service, or even know what to feed them in the first place.
A lot of them are no more than teenage high school drop-outs, who don't work and therefore don't have enough money or knowhow to feed themselves properly, let alone their kids.
There's a solution to this. Stop encouraging them by paying them to have babies that they can't afford to feed or look after in the first place.
And we're not just talking about schools here.
Our court systems are full of pitiful ‘parents' bitching and fighting each other over one thing or another.
There's a sure way to poverty. Have kids before your time, bust up with your ‘partner' and try to live on your own. Not economic or clever.
The standard of parenting in this country is now so poor in places, it's criminal. This is a sad reflection of how low we've become.
Most teenagers I know are in no real position to look after themselves let alone their children. So why on earth do we continue to pay them and encourage them to do so?
It's liberalism gone mad. It's socialism at its dysfunctional best. It's stupid. It's crazy. It's dumb. And it comes at a colossal cost to the whole country.
These days we chop and change our ‘partners' and ‘partners kids' so much, we're not quite sure who's going be at the breakfast table.
But that's the problem isn't it. There is no breakfast on the breakfast table.
They probably spent it on beers and takeaways last night.

Graeme Martin, Otumoetai.