Sue telling her children that school was useless while she’s been on government benefits for decades was probably the least self-aware statement I’ve ever heard. I feel so bad for her children, because unless someone else mentors them, they’ll end up exactly like her.
In Britain "benefits," for who, is generational. Those who have a job pay for those who don't have one. No requirements you are to get training, learn skills, work in government work projects, to give people a sense of achievement and learning, before they get support (money). How the Nation has lasted this long is unimaginable. All rich countries have failed to solve poverty in their own country but Britain really out does all the others. These people are capable of contributing to their country but contribute nothing because the government only throws money at the problem not a solution.
“I haven’t done a fraction since I left school” but all the blokes in your neighborhood know there’s a 4/5 chance you’ll spread your legs and let them hit it raw and pop another kid in you before they disappear 😂😂😂😂
I actually admire Craig. He was sheltered by his parents, but he is still making one hell of an effort to provide for his daughter. That situation would be hard on anyone, and I do appreciate him working that hard. I hope he is able to get child care, and a job!
Giving up cigarette smoking is one of the single most beneficial thing these fools could do to prevent financial and physical catastrophe down the road.
She’s the one I have zero sympathy for. Six kids from five different fathers? The people who have to slog their guts out working 8, 10 or 12 hour days and nights to provide for themselves and their loved ones are the ones I sympathise with. They have to watch as Madame Clairvoyant eats up their tax money while giving her kids sage advice like “you don’t need a education”. She needs to get off her arse, get a job and have some self respect.
Craig bless your heart, ty for being such a wonderful single father. Putting your daughter first, and sacrificing your wants for hers. I wish you all the best in this life❤
Lauren and Craig really seem to be trying to make it work with what they have. Kudos to them for trying to raise their kids right in a tough situation.
I wish the children wouldn't have to hear about the financial problems all the time.. let them be kids☹️ Craig, I think you're doing a wonderful job raising your daughter❤️
I was just thinking the same thing, don't involve children in adult issues. And it's so great to see Craig step up & take care of business, it's fantastic ☺️
I disagree, my parents spoke about financial matters that were rather serious in front of me and my siblings when we were young. I believe because of that we didn't make the same mistakes as our parents did. I'm grateful for that.
Craig, unfortunately hasn't grown up himself. Turning on his daughter when he couldn't find the keys was wrong. He needs to hang the clothes in his washing machine out.
He may be a spectacular father in your eyes...but to me he is a lazy misguided bum.☹️ A young, able-bodied young man should be working a 40 hour week..or more.. He could then afford child care which would help his daughter be more social being around other children.
When he said “look, the fridge is empty” and she just stood there…..my heart broke. No child should have to wonder about food. They should just be kids. I thank God for blessing my little family, but my heart aches for those who struggle. And now it’s 2022 and people everywhere are struggling and suffering. The evil people in this world are trying to break us. We know who will win in the end, but the suffering in the mean time is so hard.
Many years ago i left my ex husband and took my 3 kids with me and was unemployed at that time and was on unemployment i never ever had an empty fridge. Children were always fed and dressed. If he can not arrange his budget to feed one child he should not be allowed to take care of that child. This beautiful girl could be adopted by childless couple who would provide a decent life style for her.
@@bambinaforever1402 Notice how you said "many years ago". Money has changed drastically even in the last 10 years, rents are sky high and benefits pay pennies. Most people cannot live on what they are given, and if you get a job they cut you off the benefits. It is a vicious cycle. Very cruel of you to say something like "adopt her out" to a father who is clearly loving and has her best interests at heart. Disgusting, really.
@@Mom2Goldens exactly….! I wonder if she thinks her three kids should have been adopted out to a childless couple just because she came across hard times. Sometimes having less and having a loving parent is better… but I wonder where his parents are. He said his life was good and things were easy and his parents spoiled him. I couldn’t let my granddaughter starve knowing there’s a pretty empty fridge….
That little girl could be a child model while he gets vocational training. The forties something lady has a good voice so she should be able to get appt setting work or something like that. Anything is better than living as they do and having low self-esteem
I am very proud that he’s focused on doing what’s best for his daughter. This is what these programs are designed for. I’m sure he will find work when his daughter is in school. ❤
I was a single mother of two , & worked right up to I had my kids , & after they were born , so Craig also could get a job o reason why single mums or dads can’t work .
@@MsJamilaaa You are missing the point... I spoke about one dad which you have mistakenly twisted to me speaking about all single dads.. It's not a competition between men and women.. You need to stop using the "single moms" BS and focus on individual responsibility and accomplishments.
Like the woman who said the heating and electricity were probably be going to be cut off that weekend, but was still smoking!! Doesn’t a packet of cigarettes cost like £15 in the UK?
Mother of the Year comment. 'All that stuff you learn at school, you don't need it' Probably why she's had 6 kids to 5 different fathers and hasn't worked for 10 years🤔 God bless Craig. He's such a chilled guy and that rubs off on little Caitlyn. I don't think Romeo actually gives a shit about being near his Dad. Sue's doing it to benefit herself. I'm pretty sure if my brother said, 'You can't keep them closed', I'd be pretty ashamed of myself but instead she laughs🤦♀
Craig, your so awesome. Can't help but admire your strength and love for your daughter. Your not using excuses or feeling sorry for yourself, you take each day as best you can. I hope his life turns into something amazing. Would love to see a follow up of him and Caitlyn. Where they are, how they're doing now. Praying for a happy outcome seriously
'all that stuff you learn at school you dont need it'- quote of the year for someone who lives on the dole and plays clare-everything, i think shes got a case of the clare-delusionalcy
Because it doesn't work that way.. That's personal gain in the wrong way. I have friends that are into it. And they all say in order for something to happen, you have to work for it 🤷♀️🤦♀️
Even the little girl told her mother that "She could quit smoking." And the mother said that's something "She didn't want to do right now." Pure selfishness and ignorance that keeps the cycle of poverty going on and on. It's a choice.
@@spikefivefivefive I really felt bad for that child in that moment. You could see the dawning realization on her that her mother was selfish and lazy. Poor kid was much too young to be realizing that her mother was human after all.
Same!!! I live in the USA and I’m obsessed with these shows! If my ancestors hadn’t of left for the new world in the 1700s, I’d be in the UK experiencing it first hand 😆
@@Caylainez, no you wouldn’t. Britain is a very wealthy country. What you see on these programs is the underclass. Here in America the underclass is even worse off.
My husband lost his job for eight months, we don't smoke, my girls and I didn't get our hair and nails done either. I cut my husbands' hair for job interviews, and money and food were tight! H got a job out of his field, which was forty miles to and from and one car. I had to feed my children breakfast in the car, so I could drop them off in time. We all left the house at 7:00 am, he had to be to work at 8:00am and the girls to school at 9:00 am. Gas was killing us and we had to get food stamps. Those were tough times.
Seriously, telling her daughter she doesn’t need and education or “anything she learns in school” while sitting in her pyjamas, skint and jobless is the single most hypocritical thing i’ve ever witnessed! Doesn’t she realise that had she got an education, used what she learned to get a good job, she wouldn’t be in dire straits now?! “I use my phone to add up” she commented…Give me feckin’ strength! 🙄😬🙏🏼 Edit: If she’s “got all the claire’s” whatever that’s supposed to mean, couldn’t she predict the lotto and start paying her own way in society?
When she gave that reading to that girl, she says the same dribble that most clairvoyants do, "oh, you'll be successful in anything you do" lol, doesn't actually predict the person's future.
Oh Craig......You're a bloody good dad mate!! Keep up your good work. Your daughter is going to make a good life for herself and whoever else around her because of your input to make her life better!! Good luck to you all!! Your children will copy what they see/live so make it all positive for them
Some one paying for him and his child yea I work and my child go with out because I have to pay for all that can sit at home like Craig where the hell do they think the money comes from the fairys
Here, Craig says himself he was in trouble a lot as of few years back before his daughter was born. Got arrested many times, he said. See how this baby, this miracle of Life, changed him? I don't think he will ever return to his former ways, as he himself said! He could've been a slacker, blamed society and just took off but he didn't. I think he's the real "HERO" of this episode. He's an inspiration to me and to others, I'm quite sure. Thank you for this video. Peace to All here today. I love this great young man and I hope he meets a young lady who deserves him!
FFS Sue! Don't you want your children to have a better life and be more successful than you??? ENCOURAGE THEM TO GET AN EDUCATION!! Don't tell them education is no use. That's the only thing that will give them a future off the dole.
I stayed in a 1 bedroom with my 3 children after my divorce in KY in 1980. It was a shack. A 3 room shack. No water no bathroom(outhouse) heated with wood and coal. It was primitive. There are people still living like that in eastern KY. I finally found a. 2 bedroom with at least water. Cold but inside water. Still an outhouse. I met a man and we married. I sent him to school and supported him while he went. He raised my children and we had 2 of our own. We are now divorced after our children were grown. His children weren't raised that way. We moved to Georgia shortly after our son was born and we're married 30 years. I stayed single and he remarried. He's now raising our granddaughter. Life 7s tough.
‘You can stop smoking’ ‘I’m not in the right place’ - your daughter is sat inside with all her winter clothes on. The time is now. I grew up with a single parent on benefits & experienced a lot of the same things these children did. I thought that was my future too but I didn’t want it to be. I left school at 16 & have worked ever since. I went to uni at 32 & got my degree at 38. My kids don’t know poverty & I hope they never do.
The best thing that YOU as a parent can give your kids is their independence. To do that, you have to encourage them to use manners (especially at the dinner table), stand tall, be proud and get an education. Teach them some common sense and respect. Plenty of people have done it in the past under much more extreme circumstances. History does repeat OVER and OVER but unfortunately, in a lot of families, instead of ensuring that your next generation is a bit better off, the parents are the children and making their youngsters life a misery.
This upsets me, I grew up in a family with 5 kids and my mum was on benefits. It’s very scary and worrying all the time and it has an affect on all the children involved. Mentally and the impact it has on kids with going to school suffering from depression, being worried about what your mums going through and being bullied because of how you are dressed etc 😢
I love how alot of these single moms say I wanna see my child grow up, but yet receive money from the working public who are away from their children for 8 hours a day.
Well, they do have to think of excuses Charlotte....🙄. In fact that seems to be their chosen profession. And blame the blastard government, they have grown this sector of society to a major voting force which they fear will vote against them...hence the constant moddycoddling.
@S t e p h a n i e THEIR HUSBAND SUPPORT THEM, the traditional marriage. if they dint go out and get pregnant by any guy good for them, they planned their life and had a wedding. i was married at 19, my husband always worked so i could be home with our children.
@S t e p h a n i e if you cant afford to support a child yourself then dont have them, it is not up to the taxpayers to have to support your choices get a job start saving buy your house then think about a family
@S t e p h a n i e You have a point there. When you come from a dysfunctional background you unknowingly are attracted to what is familiar to you. Your mother/father are your role model. When they don't set a good example you might be appalled by their ways and don't want to pick a partner who has the same flaws but often it happens exactly this way.
@S t e p h a n i e my comment was not directed at you personally i couldn't give a toss if you lived in a cardboard box, i was referring to the women in this video as i said if they cant afford a child then dont have one.
"I dont think I've done a fraction since I left school" Oh yeah? So when you hit the half off bin, there's no math going on? Gotcha. What a waste of space.
australia same problem, having kids is sadly a ladder to a larger social benefit....mismanaged obviously and kids have sad life that leads to next generation of bludgers
Not all single parents are on "benefits". As a single parent, I worked full-time and often, also with 2nd jobs. My child grew up to become an educated professional with his own family. Yes, hard but not impossible. Need to be willing to work hard and be organised. 👍🇦🇺
@@rosalynne8792 Well done Rosalynne.... I admire your tenacity, and fire, to get the job done. However: Unfortunately, for every one of the people like you, there are a hundred others with a different agenda. Sad. But true. And the world is a poorer place because of it. Stay well....
@@patagualianmostly7437 Yes! As you say,.. So true! If only people realised that often the biggest impediment to "getting ahead" and getting "things done" is often our own attitudes to life, organisation and working hard...just need to "get on with it" And yes, you likewise..stay well and happy! 😉😁🤗
Im a single mom in the US and still work. I got to do the foot work to find a job. What an amazing young man his daughter is very lucky to have a dad that puts her needs first. WAY TO GO
This third one stays at home even though her youngest is 8 and still her place is a freaking landfill! There are legitimate reasons for people to be on benefits but none of them are in this video
@@spikefivefivefive Don’t say stupid things. Where the money comes from doesn’t matter because you still have to use it to for everything you need. They were cheap back then when it was filmed.
@@CaptchaNeon For the sake of simplicity, I'll call them dollars. $3-5 is not cheap to me. That's like, 2 loaves of bread and a gallon of milk. That's a lot of money literally burnt up. A lot of food that's not eaten.
Social Welfare, or whatever they're called in the UK, should assist that poor lady to get that cyst by her left eye to be fixed. Seems sad that they can't work that out.
Yeah I noticed that. My sister had a similar cyst right on top of her eyelid when she was in her teens it was really big. Mum took her to the hospital and they removed it, she only had to stay in hopital for a day or two. She was very self conscious of it plus I think it may have effected her eyesight as she got older. When they took it out they found it was a ball of skin and hair which they said over time may have increased in size. It really was a minor surgery, the scar can't be seen as they made the cut, right on the crease at the top of her eyelid. No ongoing issues.👍
@@Allannah_Of_Rome It's still in the air, in curtains carpets and on clothing. Second hand smoke is very damaging to health, particularly that of a child.
Craig is an amazing father to his precious little girl. I hope he can meet a nice girl to share his life with. Craig's parents have taught him good morals. I wish them both the best in life.
Hi Nicole... Many years ago....1960 I think...my family and I (Very Royal!) emigrated to Australia... I was 7-ish..I guess, I loved it there... But we were very poor initially......there was not the job my Dad was promised...and we struggled for the first year. We lived in a garage that my Dad floor boarded out to make a living space.... but we made do...and we were happy. Our neighbours were great, and, as kids, we loved it. It would never have occurred to my parents to ask for State Help or benefits...they came to Australia to help Oz grow. It seems to me that that far too many simply believe that the State is the sole provider... of all things....This is unsustainable. As the UK is now realising, far too late. As thousands arrive one their shores ... the rejections of France and Europe. There will be detractors to my comments.... Well, I give you the classic two fingers. Not the Churchill man of Victory signal....quite the reverse. Take it or leave it.
The job center said that they needed a paper from the recruiter. If she didnt go and get the paper then its her fault. The council said they woulf pay with the proper paperwork.
Nah, they're all puffy because they eat processed junk. Fresh produce is a luxury in that you have to use it quickly and it's time consuming to prepare. I know that's the main reason the working poor are so bloated, anyway. Too tired to cook and only having 12 hours until your next shift to live your life and sleep. You pop something processed and full of salt and sugar in the microwave since it takes 5 minutes and will wait months in the freezer for you to eat it.
Why are they all smokers? They find money for cigarettes, but can’t afford anything else. She could have had the 40 dollars easily, if she wasn’t paying for cigarettes. Priorities people, priorities.
There’s lots of reasons someone might end up with government benefits. A teenager might have been told that having a baby will change the rest of their life but they are young and have no experience with ‘lifetime consequences’ like us older people. They are going to end up in situations that are not advantageous for their young age. Aside from youthful mistakes, there are situations such as job loss, illness, mental illness, one mate having an alcohol or drug addiction, one mate or someone having severe PTSD from military experiences or trauma, natural disasters, marriage breakup, severe accidents, death of a mate, lack of jobs, lack of being able to get more education. All these things contribute to needing benefits. It’s unfair to lump the truly needy in with those who just don’t want to be self sufficient. Being in poverty is hard, people judge you, think you are uneducated, judge that someone is lazy, etc etc. From having lived in poverty in my youth I learned a lot: How to not waste food. I lived with the empty fridge and learned at an early age that the milk needed to be saved for my little sister. (My dad was mentally unable to cope from several tours in Korea. He was an MIA dad. ) poverty taught me that if I didn’t have clothes, I could make my own or reconstruct clothes. I learned it’s better to buy a quality product that lasts for years instead of rebuying cheap stuff. I learned that I could save money by styling my own hair, making my own jewelry, creating my own art. I save money because I don’t need or want every new fancy super fragranced cleaning product, or every new cosmetic, or idiotic style created to take my money. It’s sad that junk food is so inexpensive but healthy vegetables etc are priced for only the wealthy.
You are 100% correct. Hardworking people are having to pay for this B.S. they need to be REQUIRED to either going to college or some sort of vocational training if they receive benefits. No goofing off on the taxpayer’s money.
The struggles of the young parents tugged at my heart. Wish I could send them pounds to help them in some way. They're trying so hard. Will send them prayers for strength, endurance and perseverance. 🙏🏾💜😇
On so many of the benefits Britain shows, they look down on food banks, but complain that the government won't give them more. So, you don't have enough pride to earn your money, but too proud to get food to feed your kids.
