'Undernourished' Cork kid collapses in school

[eirebenz]

Vaccines wear off or never worked at all.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000359.htm

You are guilty of being stupid

1984.
Different vaccine.
Different results.
Back then, 15% didn't seroconvert.
Not true since.

You are guilty of not reading around anecdotal stories.

 

[Eleven]

But if a parent is receiving Social Welfare payments for themselves and their child/children, then they must take responsibility for providing the basics (food, clothing, heat) to the child, wouldn't you agree? Especially, if the State is providing money specifically for that reason. If the parent is struggling financially, then it's up to them to alert the relevant authorities - and a lot of them do with respect to accessing emergency payments etc. If there are other personal issues with the parent, then, obviously they need to be addressed, but there is no way a child should be suffering. And I would agree with whoever said on here about the teachers etc. not doing something sooner.

There are thousands of reasons why someone wouldn't know where to turn to, or perhaps couldn't even say. Not everyone can speak English or has access to a car, or a family network and so on. Not so many years ago my mother was teaching children, uniform shabby, no lunch and so forth. The school were afraid to speak to the parents as in todays society, you could end up in court. These children also had grandparents and aunts and uncles. I would imagine there is a family like that in most schools. For parents, we get notes for money, school book lists and never is there a number to contact if you can't afford it.

 

[Eleven]

You shouldn’t have kids if you can afford to feed them.

Can any person, while naked in bed/down an alley/in the back of a car/fancy hotel room, tell 19 years ahead and be confident they will always have money?

 

[gozzy]

Can any person, while naked in bed/down an alley/in the back of a car/fancy hotel room, tell 19 years ahead and be confident they will always have money?

What about in the storeroom in Guineys of a Friday?

 

[Aislegullim]

What about in the storeroom in Guineys of a Friday?

Stay classy Gozzy

 

[thegillabbeygowl]

Can any person, while naked in bed/down an alley/in the back of a car/fancy hotel room, tell 19 years ahead and be confident they will always have money?

Well tough Shit.
You breed, you feed.

 

[Eleven]

Well tough Shit.
You breed, you feed.

I do, don't worry. I'm so good I pay for 100% of it. However, people's circumstances change. Or is the poverty people complain about only a myth?

 

[Eleven]

What about in the storeroom in Guineys of a Friday?

Best offer I got all day.

 

[King of England]

I do, don't worry. I'm so good I pay for 100% of it. However, people's circumstances change. Or is the poverty people complain about only a myth?

In this country, a complete load of bollocks.