Kids Suffer
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-10-15Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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MARGARET Thatcher has been weeping crocodile tears to Women's Own on the nightmares she faces every time she has to sack someone. Putting on her 'firm but loving mother' hat, she explains:
*'The people who give everything to children because they don't like to exercise family discipline, don't get right. It's the same in politics. You've got to do the things you believe to be right, and try to explain them. Some of them will hurt. But you can't just retreat"
Perhaps she would like to ponder on some more ghastly statistic to add to the three million and unemployed who stand 86 monumenta to her firmnes8.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children report a dramatic increase in baby battering. In London, over the past 11 months, cases of non-accidental injuries to children rose by 37%. In West London, there was a 60% increase.
The NSPCC say, 'We fear this figure will escalate even further as Government cuts begin to bit into local authority services" Poor housing, . unemploy. ment, and lack of facilities, eapecially nurseries, all aggravate the problem -they say.
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