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5 Mar 2025
Q&A

Ed I

What are your experiences of trying to meet your children’s needs?

With great hardship we meet our children's needs as a low income family. As a parent couldn't fulfill all of their basic demands. For example, children may ask for an ice cream in summer but had to say no to them as couldn't afford. Doing a hourly job it was very difficult to fulfill children's demands besides rent, council tax, energy bills and food. Barely managed to take them to seaside yearly but taking food from home to stay within budget.

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Changing Realities (2023), Ed I. https://changingrealities.org/e/ZGqsV (05 Mar 2025)
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