On the midday news on December 9, the opening item started with 'A reports says a high percentage of New Zealand children don't have enough income”.
When are people in New Zealand, who influence society, going to get to grips with the fact children don't have any income? Its the parents who don't have enough income, not children.
Wake up folks. I have said and written before that there is no such thing as child poverty, as there's no such thing as child wealth. Parents are the ones who the word poverty applies to, not children.
We need to address parent and adult poverty and that will sort life out for the children. Get away from the words and thoughts of child poverty and we'll get somewhere. Because once we start to deal with parental poverty, then we're dealing with a reality.
Rebarbative comments about child poverty need to stop, because as long as we misinterpret reality we simply cannot move forward. First to start doing something positive is employers in New Zealand, especially in Tauranga.
I know of people who drive to Rotorua and further afield to work because they earn $6 to $8 an hour more there than they would here - doing the same job.
As a manufacturer and exporter, I contract all of my work to places like Auckland, because we can get work done there for half the price as here.
So the charges people employ here indicates they can pay a better wage then they currently do, in many places.

Alastair Bourne, Bethlehem.