{"id":68709,"date":"2024-12-16T18:43:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T18:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=68709"},"modified":"2024-12-16T18:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T18:43:33","slug":"children-are-stealing-and-starving-as-parents-struggle-over-christmas-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/16\/children-are-stealing-and-starving-as-parents-struggle-over-christmas-time\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Children are stealing and starving&#8217; as parents struggle over Christmas time"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1vXVZT.img?w=768&amp;h=511&amp;m=6&amp;x=302&amp;y=191&amp;s=55&amp;d=55\" alt=\"Children in uniform eating meal at school lunch table\" width=\"556\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A <\/span>charity leader warns kids are &#8220;stealing&#8221; and &#8220;starving&#8221; as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/dwps-two-child-benefit-limit-33832102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">child poverty<\/a>\u00a0worsens over Christmas period, with an ex-teacher moved to tears after spending &#8220;half of their wages&#8221; on feeding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/schools-falling-pupil-numbers-could-33864915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">primary school<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/family-relationships\/children-are-stealing-and-starving-as-parents-struggle-over-christmas-time\/ar-AA1vXMQ5?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=a621152de0e44f6bfdb98242dd479c99&amp;ei=49\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A charity leader warns kids are &#8220;stealing&#8221; and &#8220;starving&#8221; as\u00a0child poverty\u00a0worsens over Christmas period, with an ex-teacher moved to tears after spending&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-and-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/school-lunch.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68710,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68709\/revisions\/68710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}