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Howard, while I see the point you're making, however, the State cannot simply decide to abandon children in our Country to no form of care or benefit through financial means, unless they were born to an economically self-sufficient family.
Where this is not the case, a child's mother, or mother and father, must be in receipt of child benefit and any other related benefit, be it housing, special provision of sorts or whatever.
If not, how would a family survive, if say, the first 3 children were accounted for by the State, and the fourth and fifth were not?
The mother - or both parents - would certainly divide all the available money for food and clothing so that it all goes to all the children equally. They would all lose out, because 5 or more children would be receiving financial income meant for only 3 children.
We would become the paria of the world if we introduced child poverty laws in Britain.
