Should More Be Done To Prevent Child Food Poverty? | Breadline Kids
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2021
- In Britain, 4.1 million children are growing up in poverty. This absolute documentary follows three families to show what life is like if there's not enough money for life's essentials. These children share their experiences with food poverty and what most of us take for granted is in fact these young children's biggest challenge.
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The amount of food the supermarkets throw away everyday because its a day over its best before date is criminal.
I totally agree! They distribute it to churches, cafes and the such like here in Cambridge, then you can go and collect it for free :) more cities should follow suit.
Amen! It is just disgraceful that all these grocery stores throw away all this food instead of giving it to local food banks to help so many people. It just amazes me how much food we waste in the (United States and the UK) 🇬🇧 and we don’t think about children that go hungry at night!! 💔 💔 💔
Regulations and insurance companies make it almost impossible for them to donate
It's their own items though.
Should you be banned from throwing away something you no longer want?
I bet you think that shouldn't apply to you, huh, ma'am?
This is heartbreaking. No child should have to go hungry.
What makes me sad and angry is the way our government looks out for other countries except our own.
No lady working mc Donald's drive thru should be legal to not have iud
@@konichiwa3744 gross mentality to have.
@@nikkilynn559 how? to prevent a baby coming into the world that will suffer? youre mantality is gross if anything. every child deserves a parent but not every parent deserves a child. be smart and use protection
THIS IS WHAT YOU PAY YOUR TAXES FOR....
The grandma and her granddaughter are so humble and sweet, actually all the families are. 🦋🦋🦋
The children are so mature beyond their years, it’s so sad because they aren’t getting to enjoy their childhood. Breaks my heart. In a country like England, food should never be an issue, nor heating and electricity. With all the money spent on things like Harry’s wedding, imagine how many people could be fed. Shame on England. I hope the families in this documentary are in a better situation now. 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Shouldn't be an issue in any country
Yes it is! It’s heart breaking! It’s sad for those children and they don’t get to have a childhood. Because they are stressed out just like their parents worried about if they’re going to have a roof over their head if they’re going to have food. With so many countries that have so much wealth it is a shame and Disgraceful to let anyone go hungry!!
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is more important than her starving poverty stricken subjects. What exactly are British people celebrating?
What about all that cash Bojo and his wife wasted on all that horrible wallpaper in their No 10 flat?
@@mstt3530 it was not tax money, it was private donor money for access or corruption
The young girl singing in the beginning has a beautiful voice.
I felt her pain in her voice. She's singing the blues. I pray for her and all the kids. They deserve so much better.
She is so precious!
She could go back to Kenya - I'm sure they have free stuff over there...
OH WAIT.
Lucy's mom does not need to be ashamed 😢 she is such a strong women give herself to make sure her kids have food on the table, I have seen so many children being abandoned by their parents when they feel as they are not able to cop with the responsibility
So impressed with how mature these kids are
We need to address greed and selfishness first.
Capitalism has no feelings as it is a machine. The machine is stuck on maximum profits that will always crush everyone else underneath.
And address the lazy
Where to start. Those people are amazing. Anyone would be proud of those kids. It is heartbreaking to see how their lives are being destroyed - through no fault of their own - by the vanity, the lies and the greed of this despicable, contemptible government.
Amen to that! 💯
THIS IS WHAT YOU PAY YOUR TAXES FOR....
Bless all the families needing help.
Amen in Jesus name.. 😭 😢
It is bloody heartbreaking! These kids deserve do much more 😢
THIS IS WHAT YOU PAY YOUR TAXES FOR....
This is so sad to watch, it just seems to be getting worse in the UK. The government really doesn't care!
Yet they give handouts to illegal immigrants
It's mostly the fault of lazy parents
When I look at my comfortable lifestyle sort of puts it into perspective. There but for the grace of God……
Every human everywhere should have the ability to earn a living wage and provide for their families. This isn't about people having children that shouldn't and those who comment as such have a very narrow view of the world. Food poverty goes far deeper than just having a child. The US alone wastes 30-40% of the food supply due to a myriad of issues. This is food that could be feeding families and children everywhere. Cost of living, wages, and education play a part in all of it, as well as profit, distribution guidelines, and manufacture/farming expenses. A corporations bottom line is not more important than a human life.
And if those people spend more money on drugs, alcohol or tobacco than their childrends nutrition?
Well said it's shameful 😔
Perfectly spoken sentiments! I agree with a better and realistic living wage! I've postponed much needed surgery because if I only work 40 hours a week my kids and I would be homeless! I promise you..we live well below our means..no vacation..no game systems and gadgets! It's disgusting that I have to save money for dental care as my work dental insurance is way beyond what I can afford!
@@solinasora4250 This is not about giving anyone more money. It is about providing families and children with food. If you are given a bag of groceries they're not going to trade that for drugs simply because a drug dealer will not accept it. Even if you just give a family a bag of apples and a jar of peanut butter you are feeding them and giving them nourishment. The child should not be punished because of the parents choices. Most parents will want to feed and care for their kids regardless of their addiction. It's not always true but there is a way to make contact with the family on a non-confrontational/non-punitive basis and help provide necessities for the kids.
@@tastytemptationsfromthetwins You obviously do not know addicts.
I wish there was a way to help and donate to people like this that are genuinely suffering with children to support. I'd of bought that lovely Nan a washing machine in a heartbeat no questions asked x
I send love and prayers to all these families. The Grandma and grandaughter are lovely .
No child should go without food because there brains, there bones and teeth are developing children come first they are our future, grandchildren etc. this too happens in Canada I know because I poor so I made sure my children ate. They always came first. My son noticed I wasn’t eating he cares for me and always showed a worried look on his face. He’d put food on his fork and bring it to me and I opened Colin was so happy. I cryed when he said mom I will take care of buzzlightyear and you. Love you mommy.
It seems that whoever decides what a living or livable wage is really needs to walk a mile in the worn, tired shoes of those who do work..sometimes multiple jobs and still have to choose what to pay when so there is money left for food!
Amen to that!! 💯 We don’t need a minimum wage. We need a living wage!!
Yes, much more should be done , Child poverty in 21st century Britain!!!
This has to be the priority.
Theres plenty of money in society, it's in the wrong hands.
These young people are wise beyond their years,
Incredibly naive of people who think children shouldn't be born ..........😥
We have the same problem in America 🇺🇸,
Child poverty is in every country and it's about time our governments change the way things are done, we the people need to demand change,
The world has been run by corrupt and greedy people ,
It's time to do away with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and the middle class becoming Extinct.
Ever human being is important and deserves a good life.
Amen!! It is just so unbelievable in the 21st-century that we would let people go hungry at night. Especially little children go hungry! Breaks my heart!! But one thing that we can all do in one thing I’m going to start doing is donating to the food banks and trying to help as much as I can. Even if you do a little. A little means A lot to a person that really needs it!! All of us should help each other even if you don’t have much to give… 💯 I pray in Jesus name that we all start trying to help each other. The government should do more but also every person can try to do a little something for someone. Could you imagine with the world would be like if everyone trying to help each other out just a little bit… 💯
Uk is going down since brexit
God bless these kids and their grandmother. God watch over them and bless them and provide for them in Jesus name..
First girls mom clearly had substance abuse issues in the past. You cabt expect life to be easy with history like that
These children are all so smart.
Yes they are.. God bless These families and watch over them in Jesus name.. ❤️
This documentry is sad but it aldo makes you greatfulfor what you have .
It’s awful that children should have to experience that feeling of hunger from missing meals and being malnourished. My children say they’re hungry but we’re lucky they’ve not experienced the feeling where they’ve had to go without meals. They don’t know the meaning of the word really but I know our circumstances could change at the drop of a hat
THIS IS WHAT YOU PAY YOUR TAXES FOR....
I bet the queen never and her family never miss a meal. Plus you know they eat well too. This is not right or fair.
That’s why the royal family sucks.
Amen to that 💯
@@TheSuperPsychoKiller They suck because the Queen didn't go hungry? Yet, I bet you adore the Kardashian's! LOL
@@harley8680 They suck because they use up resources that could go to the poor. You love watching the Kardashians.
Bet you eat alright as well Crystal. So pipe down.
This just makes me so sad and it’s going to get worse now with the cost of living crisis.
They should make a new documentary
Such beautiful children & their parents & nan. I'm welling up watching this. It's so unfair & cruel. Charity absolutely should begin at home.
This shouldn't be a question
This is disgusting because if the government played a good wages you wouldn’t need benefits but they want to keep the poor poor shame on them
Makes me sick when their are literally parents that choose to spend money unwisely instead of feeding their children correctly
This is where I feel like the healthy start scheme needs to be extended, I’ve got two kids under 4 and get a good amount of vouchers to get my kids their milk and veggies and fruit so they eat well each month, but it ends when they turn 4. It needs to be extended age wise so that kids can actually get food without parents stressing and worrying.
I agree it should be through high school
do you think those parents were ever worried about their kids when they were having those kids?
We really need more responsible parents in Britain.
Exactly. Same in America. Not more government.
I think the problem is the families that both parents are working and make just over the guidelines for help.
Amen 💯
It's deliberately punitive
Same in America. The working poor get almost no help
Lucie's grand-daughter is amazing! She is so mature for her age!
People should only have children if they can be sure they will be able to provide an acceptable minimum standard of living for the entire 18 years of their childhood.
Nothing is sure mate.
@@ralphmacchiato3761 Bottom dregs of society having 10 kids to get more free government money is pretty sure, mate.
It’s sad that this is a controversial statement. It’s literally the first thing people should be thinking about before they take the condom off. Having children is a choice and responsibility. No other choice and responsibility has such a huge safety net and it is taken for granted. Taxpayers funding other people’s choices and responsibilities is taken for granted.
The fact this question is even being asked in 2022, the 21st century ... Goodness.
Exactly been got automation and all this technology for food supplies, in addition to millions of dollars wasted on military ranks, something is wrong with government
2014.
It must be awful being a chef and not having enough food.
Precious babies all failed by the system I pray to god they now have a better life! They truly deserve all the happiness in the world!Xx
With the amount of taxpayers money being paid to families on benefits there is no need for any child to go hungry. Perhaps parents need to be taught how to manage their money. Love how these kids have all been well coached.
Private rents have gone up, social housing is non existent, benefits can’t cover the difference, so it’s not really about balancing a budget, it’s about the money not going far enough.
They should have a food card like in America. 2 people get $360 a month..also help like free bus passes. America only gives cash out for disabilities.
America is worse.
Well. These parents/grandparents may be struggling but they have done so many things right as all the children are so lovely and kind, understanding and considerate ❤
13:23 Heartbreaking for a child to feel hungry
The answer to the tag line is YES
The world definitely need to get their priorities in order. I don't get why people like the richest in the world can't help. Its so sad how many kids go hungry even where I live.
That's so wrong to make someone pay to get a loan.
How can a society allow this its beyond a joke your kids are all amazing this country needs to start putting our taxes down the drain. I would rather we lived in a fair society xx
Let's care of our people first instead of bringing migrants from all over the world
Amen 💯
The fact that the Brits are poor doesn't really have anything to do with migrants. It has to do with the Brits running the government and the people skimming the wealth off of society and lining their own pockets. But whatever goes on - blame the migrants. This is why nothing improves or changes. People are always blaming the wrong people and not holding the people who are REALLY making the decisions accountable
@@jip230 omfg are you HIGH?
These children are very mature for their age they no what’s going on and they no the sacrifices their parents have to make
No child should go hungry and no parent should be putting themselves at risk in whatever they have to do
Praying for the little ones
So sad for the white family in poverty cause their daughter got canser😢
This day and age birth control is FREE??? If you can’t feed them why breed them? makes no sense, if you yourself are struggling, how does making more mouths to feed help anyone. I had 3 children, but we knew we could afford to have them. Sad to say, but these kids will grow up with nothing and no future. 😞
It isn't about being poor and going out and having children. Circumstances can change your life without any notice. Not everyone leads a cushy life. And yes birth control may be free, but who's to say some women even have or had the choice to become pregnant???
Lucky for you to have everything you want and not needing a thing. I sure hope nothing unexpected happens to ruin the life you have.
Food poverty is FAR worse now than it was in 2014.
It’s awful 😞 extremely sad 😞 how those vulnerable people had to face so much dire consequences while as choose between food , heat the governments need to do more to help these people suffering such devastating impacts 🙏😢🍀
Your "background" music is so loud it overwhelms these little childrens' voices
Who the frell came up with the title for this video?
"SHOULD more be done to prevent CHILD food POVERTY"?!
What it should state Clearly is.
MORE should be done to PREVENT child food POVERTY.
All that took was switching 2 words.🙄
This should be seen everywhere its the same in so many places and also worse in many places.
I think zero hour contracts should be banned or atleast the government should make it that employers should have a MINIMUM number of hours they have to give to employees. It’s disgusting that people can go days or weeks without working causing them to starve.
Yes is the answer.
Child poverty is nothing new, it it just more talked about. We have had centuries of child and family poverty. Food banks have always been around too just in different names . Economics and Austerity rises in food and utility prices , lower wages and and the rise in unemployment.
Any time.
All the food that is in the world and people are starving and in the UK with the so called royal family and their 10 plus homes, I don’t get it.
our government is a joke espe wen it comes to families with sick children
think they need to help and give these parents a break, there dealing with enough
The boy who said selling memories 😔
but the public will continue to vote tory. again and again and again forever more
I do now whot it's like the litle souls
I have bean there except there were
No breakfast clubs years ago when we were children my heart goes out to these
Children
Breaks my heart as children shouldn't have any worries. Why in this day and age are innocent people going hungry and criminals in prison get 3 meals a day. I cannot throw food in the bin, if i can't reuse it then it goes to the dog or the birds. All schools should have a breakfast club and a hot lunch for free. Children cannot concentrate if they are hungry.
Yes j. Just don't vote Tory
In answer to the above title ,god yes. It's got to start in the neighbourhood and that's when the world's going to change for the better. No more kids starving if there's anything next door, not as much drug dealings as there's more eyes to prevent it, not so much lonliness because ironically a major crisis like a failing government and heating too expensive is going to bring all the lonely and impoverished people together and hopefully with those in better off positions. I'm always grateful for having money in my purse when I overhear a single parent struggling to cope with kids wanting sweeties, most take it,men generally don't, just frame it properly, oh can I give the kid a wee sweetie? You can tell a position just by looking. Food banks give survival food that have nothing like real sweeties or biscuits in them, it's 7p beans. Every little bit helps. Offer it, those cans for big charities take for all kinds of overheads and when do you see it reach our nation's kids that are underprivileged. It's our responsibility to do what we can if we have it. Heartbreaking, we need to scream for our community centres again. Mental health and poverty go hand in hand, these kids are our future. Rant over. Blessings to all kids, you were all born equal, love to you looking after these little ones too.
I wish I could find these families I wish they started a fund raised for them to help them instead of just filming or did they ? I want to send money !!
the kids are amazing
How about you give people support for housing and free meals provided in centers, balanced and all. No extra money for cigarettes or alcohol, that would be paid by any income the parents make
I felt bad for all the families, but what always irks me is when children have smart phones. that is a no brainer. food over gadgets!
Yes 😢
Does the U. K have a food stamp program? If not this would help alot
Ha ha.
America the Great!!
The country where people are dying without medical assistance, also no one likes people on food stamps. They are seen as nothing.
@@d1rtylabel769 lots of the schools here kids don’t have to wear uniforms. That a relief on the parents pockets
@@sneak6957
Do you know the reason why they have uniform here?
So poor children do not get victimised.
@@d1rtylabel769 wait what? How’s a uniform gonna stop you from getting victimized?
@@sneak6957
You don't know do you.
The UK has school uniform so every child wears the same to school regardless of income.
Welcome 2022 and thing are worse than ever .
My love language is cooking and feeding friends and family. I’m sure it because I grew up not have food at home. Susan with her hair cut, makeup and jewelry. Spend the kid’s money on the kids.🤬🤦🏼♀️
Once again where is Dad..Where is someone helping them to budget. Food Bank are supposed to be temporary..
It's should be mandatory that if you use a food bank that you have 1.1 to help go through your budget and someone to make sure your getting everything your entitled to, then suggestions how to stretch your food and meal plan. It's amazing how many people don't know how to do this.
I would starve before any of my kids went hungry...it's the very least a parent should do 😢.
How did we even get here 💔
Child poverty is not a new thing it's always been there. The difference is older generations knew how to budget without handouts breakfast clubs free School meals foodbanks. . What these parents need is to stop feeling self entitled because they have kids. Feel for the kids being exposed to their parents bad parenting and lack of self control over their spending. Not all but many this is the reason kids are hungry. Fgs 5 days a week the Schools feeding them 2 out of 3 meals per day so how can they not provide 1 meal.
Yiu raise some valid points but working people with children are also accessing food banks, in serious debt, making the choice between food an electric. Wages are low costs are high. Even a budget can not same some folk.
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Some are asking why we are in this horrific cost of living crisis with soaring child poverty in 2022. Below is a brief explanation that by no means covers everything but it begins to unravel things for people who haven't previously been interested in politics. Other people with knowledge should feel free to add their understandings in reply and help to build the picture. 💕
During Tony Blair's Government they set up targets for eradicating child poverty. They made it law for the Government to be accountable for meeting these targets.Child poverty was at an all time low and on target for eradicating child poverty by 2030. Shortly after the Conservative Lib Dem coalition got into power, they scrapped the targets and therefore the law that said Government should be held accountable became void. The Blair Government was not perfect but on matters of poverty it was on the fair money!
In living memory, Child poverty was always measured by income and material deprivation, essentially. However, in 2016 the Tories scrapped these measurements and devolved governments decided if they wanted to do the same. They didn't, by contrast, Scotland kept those original measurements. All experts say the original measurements were the best and fairest ways to measure absolute and relative poverty. Instead, the Conservatives have replaced those measurements with a highly subjective list headed with if the child lives in a 'workless' household. However, research shows that the majority of people living in poverty (around 68%) are IN WORK...working the gig economy and struggling with ridiculous universal credit. YET the Tories still hold that work is the best way out of poverty...They also conveniently ignore the needs and rights of those who cannot work due to disability or other disabling issues.
Also remember Thatcher's legacy of selling off council houses which were never replaced. That and her allegiance with Rupert Murdoch means the political system and the media is rigged towards the right. Thatcher began the destruction of the unions and the right to protest and Truss aims to finish it (remember - Truss is the figurehead - the big corporations and oligarchs are in charge). Is it any wonder we have declining mental health and that ADHD and learning difficulties are more commonly diagnosed now in children and young adults? Or that domestic violence and drug abuse is on the up? We are all slowly being eradicated. (This is part of the plan on a global scale - The Great Reset - look it up on RUclips or Google Scholar).
Until the ordinary people realise this is a class war and that they have strength in their numbers, nothing will change.
The Tories are about to scrap the Human Rights act in the U.K, they are demonising trades unions through the media and they are undermining the right to protest. Never vote Tory and educate yourselves as much as you can. Push for change - find an organisation or charity that work for the eradication of poverty and join them OR start your own protest within your community. Much love 💕
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I can't believe people are living like this in Britain. I know there's no place like eutopia and there's no perfect country. Where was/is the queen that is beloved by all. The way they celebrate their queen I can't believe people are living like this in London nog al
I don't worry it's just there imperial past catching up with them once and for all karma
Yet again where are the missing parents, what are thy doing for their kids ? Children need two working parents, people should not have children till they can afford them. I feel sorry for the childen, they are mostly reaping the consequences of their parents poor choices. The fact that DWP and HMRC are charged telephone numbers is a disgrace, they should all be 0800 numbers.
Lower the food prices will help stop giving billions to other countries and take care of our own first
Being .poor no food living situation and homeless shelter. Has been going crisis has been going on for hundreds and thousands of years no sugar coat this problem it’s serious and it’s real
It’s wrong when the mother looks in her child’s eyes and can’t them no kid should go hungry not even that no family should go hungry no man or woman to go hungry either something is wrong my friends something is wrongI it’s probably have to be fixed somehow someway this should never be like this❤🙏👀
What’s up with Halloween decorations? I’m sure the money spent on those would pay for a few meals.
They were probably bought well before the problems started and reused every year
OR "Should More Be Done To Prevent Family Food Poverty?" Poor kids come from poor families.
I see Victorian England is in full swing. Its 2023 not 1900. Children should not starve in a country as rich as Britain? This is sick and so wrong
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Well that's a no brainer!! There is so much food wastage in this world that no child, no human should ever have to go hungry. If only people started using their brain and stop being so greedy.
Is it even a question?
FYI this documentary is from 2013
Now got even worse since then
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More people are attending food aid because more food banks have opened 😡 what F rubbish. If more food banks have opened its because there’s more NEED for them. These F politicians have no F clue what people are going through. Makes me so angry 😤.
Potatoes cheap plentiful easy to grow and it has all of the necessary vitamins for survival you don't need milk when there's water humans survived without milk for thousands of years
Ya stop having kids not married
UK developed country????