{"id":2113,"date":"2015-02-03T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2015-02-03T07:21:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:21:40","slug":"stop-the-blame-game-with-child-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"Stop the blame game with child poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Estonia, Finland, Sweden and India all offer free school lunches and education has improved dramatically in these nations. It makes sense to invest in your countries greatest asset the next generation.\u00a0No thanks to attack blogs like Whale Oil, New Zealanders have lost empathy for\u00a0our fellow countrymen<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">The\u00a0comments made when blaming parents<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">&#8220;The parents are lazy&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">&#8220;They spend their money on gambling and alcohol&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">&#8220;The parents are obviously living beyond their means&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">&#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t have had children if you can\u2019t afford to feed them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">These accusations fail to\u00a0resolve child poverty and children continue to suffer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/feedthekids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2132 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/feedthekids.jpg\" alt=\"feedthekids\" width=\"715\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/feedthekids.jpg 715w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/feedthekids-227x300.jpg 227w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/feedthekids-495x653.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia, Finland, Sweden and India all offer free school lunches and education has improved dramatically in these nations. It makes sense to invest in your countries greatest asset the next generation.\u00a0No thanks to attack blogs like Whale Oil, New Zealanders have lost empathy for\u00a0our fellow countrymen The\u00a0comments made when blaming parents &#8220;The parents are lazy&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}