I didn't get as far as hearing the kids Dad is unsafe. He's probs on benefits for MH.
How she is living, people have lived for years like it.. It's this bracket of society that wastes money and has v little financial responsibility, nothing new. The difference is. In many years to come when the working people/ homeowners / payers into private pension/been financially astute/financially responsible get older they 'will have something tangible'..the benefit claimants stay the same their entire life. Have an older friend in her 60s, raised by parents on benefits, they were won't work, why should we. Happy to plod , those days when you were poor it stuck out like a sore thumb. (All the kids have not followed parents, hated their proper childhoods, was so different then) Kids don't Q up at school with an obvious dinner token, because parents don't pay school lunches. Or wear jumble sale worn out clothes. Or NHS ugly spectacles. Fast forward years, her 80 yo mother is v very well looked after by the state, even with the government slashing what they did for the elderly. Because this lady is on full benefit, she gets all sorts of cash thrown at her.
Its the between benefit claimants and good/ high earners always suffer financially.
Incidentally..I came from a low to middle class family. In a financial challenging dip when i waa small my Mother went out door to door selling Avon, I remember her saying. The council estates were her best revenue, not the private housing.