Why there are Parents like this?

Poor children. I know sometimes the world can be not fair to them Maybe their parents are poor to. In order to buy something they call food they have to do the begging work. I don't blame the parents 100% because when you can do anything else, begging is the only option left. I hope the government give a little more attention to these people. Give them enough education so that they have more options to earn some money and start living.

Well, we have the same situation here. I really feel sorry about the kids and worry about their future. Starting from begging, you can imagine the future life they will have. How can their parents do such things to them? I saw an old man took a twin baby in the street months ago and days before i saw them again and found the baby had grown bigger and can stand by themslef. What a misery babyhood?I can feel hurt inside.

lets not forget sometimes it is not the parents, eve. I read in the papers that there was a gang in Malaysia that kidnap little children and use them to beg for money. They even went as far to cut of the limps to win sympathy from the general public. I think this people are heartless creature. Recently there was a movie "slamdog millionaire" talking about the plight of the children in the poorest areas in India.

Well, to tell you the truth, the beggars you see on the streets are organized. they have their boss, and there's requirements on how much money they have to earn for a day. Most of them are RICH. Yes, I mean it. Most beggars in my country are organized and I have seen in with my own very eyes how they work. Did I say rich? Well, these people are lazy. If they do a decent job, the payment is far smaller. By begging, they can have about $20 a day (you can convert them in your country's currency, just to get the idea). The children? Well they are there for rent. Have you seen a mommy with her baby? well, that's not her baby, she rent the poor baby to make people feel pity for her. I used to live in a very small town, so it's very possible to meet the same person several times a day. There was a beggar who regularly come to my office and one day I happened to see him at the bank, OPENING A DEPOSIT ACCOUNT! He even knew how to invest his money! That's why I never give money to beggars. I'd rather give money to the charity foundation. And in my country, giving money to the beggars is forbidden by the law.

hi eve, i live also here in the Philippines. Yeah your right there are too many beggars along the street. Sometimes you feel angry towards the parents of those street children, who beg for help, a little money for food. But come to think of it you really cant blame those parents, why? You must think that even though they want to have a job to raise their children into more comfortable life,they still cant, do you think if they will apply for a job, a serious job, a legal job, do you think there will be any employer will wish to hire them? No one isnt? Why? Because of many reasons, including the following: First, some are iliterate,some atleast elementary level. Second, Their physical appearance, and third reason that everybody experienced even people who are educated, the backer system, you know what i mean? There are some company or employer who will hire people through referer, through their friends or relatives. Let us all be realistic, even educated person can hardly find a decent job, worst to those who are iliterate and has short time in education, that is why the only thing they find ways to get some food for their family is to be on the street and beg for coins.

I'm from the Philippines too and it doesn't just happen around makati. The only thing the parents of those kind of children have in mind is money. They use their kids to get the sympathy of the people to give them more money than they can do by themselves. I also don't give money to parents like that because if they can bear their children to breathe smoke and be exposed to different kinds of things I wonder if they really care about them. It's as if they are just having babies as instruments for begging and that's it. I may sound inhumane but what i'm saying is true. If we want to help them it's not by giving them money but by letting parents like these realize that they need to work to eat and that a child is not a tool but a product of love.

Sad to say but India too is teeming with beggars and its both frustrating and annoying to see families alongiwth small kids begging on the road. I never give them money coz my money comes thru hard work…I have only one son and inspite of all my dreams, I could not afford another child coz of rising prices and yet we have these people in thousands who give birth every year coz they know that everything for them is free. They footpaths that are constructed for us to work have been taken over as makeshift homes, they get free food, free health checkup, free education AND the more babies they have, the more hands to beg and feed the parents! So why should they stop procreating? They don’t have to do any hard work…just make the kids stand at strategic corners and no more worries for money.

Hi eve, yes, those kind of parents are everywhere. I understand that there are people who are very poor and all that but putting the kids out there to get sympathy is just disgusting. What I don't understand is why the authorities don't step in and at least help out the children. I mean the authorities should be protecting the children if the parents won't or can't. right?

hi eve I am not at all condoning the parents for what they are doing with their kids but why do they have to beg? where are the phillipine authorities who can make jobs for people I mean a lot of poor people if they have no jobs are driven to do something just to get food. this does not speak well for the government of your country.no we do not have that in the United states as we have welfare and other programs that can help the poor. your country is a lot to blame for these conditions to exist and something should be done about it too.

we also can see such scene often on the street but i wonder whether those kids are their own child or not and if that's their own they must love them and send to school while not let them beg on the street.i heard that someone cheated other's child and them let those kids to beg money.

Well, that is what I notice also. I am pity with those kids because they are victims of irresponsible parents. The government should be looking into this problem. But it sad to say that the government that will be protecting them from that misguided method of the parents to raise their children. They never do any action to emphasize to these people on what they is wrong... I don't understand also why there are parent's like them. They are using their children to begged in the street. Perhaps, this is the way they know to live in that vagabond situation they have...

Fortunately we dont have this situation in my country. However I hope that I dont see things like these. It will break my heart. Its not fair that these poor kids live a situation like this. What about their life and their future? Children are so innocent. They shouldnt pay for their parent's faults and mistakes. I know that life can be difficult at times and maybe its easy for me to say so,since I dont actually know what it really means, but I would surely try and find another solution in order to get money instead of using my kids to do so.

You are right, people who are begging together with there kids are keep on increasing each year. So you can see in any sidewalks there are small houses that built in something that seems that they just get everywhere like woods, newspapers, boxes and many more. I am mad at the parents but I feel sorry for there children because they suffered at the very young age. i am lucky that i dint belong to them, so I share what i got, i gave them food although it made me think that those people are contented because they saw somebody will give them food.

This is a complex thing to discuss because this is about economic life. I do see many of beggar in my country. I do believe they because they need to get money to life not for next month, but for today. It's a pity though. I do believe their parent wouldn't do that if they have money to live. Sometimes I see them, I can just shed my tear. I hope everyone's life get better from time to time, all we do is we must love the earth too

We are living in the same country. I saw what you were talking about at Makati, actually all over the places in our country there are like that. Parents just allow their kids to run to cars and beg for money. Because they have no education they are not like those parents that are concerned with their children. They only want what is good for them, they ask for money because they can use it to by food. And besides, people will have grace with the children because they are young. Because of that they will give money to them. I really hate them because they are using their child to work for them and not thinking that their child can meet an accident on the road. there is danger everywhere and they are not concerned about it. I hope the government will look for an employment for their parents for their child to stop working. That is child abuse.

lets not forget sometimes it is not the parents, eve. I read in the papers that there was a gang in Malaysia that kidnap little children and use them to beg for money. They even went as far to cut of the limps to win sympathy from the general public. I think this people are heartless creature. Recently there was a movie "slamdog millionaire" talking about the plight of the children in the poorest areas in India.