Government and free food for Kids in school holidays

There has been a lot of media over the Government refusing to give children free school meals over the school holidays. There has also been some disagreeing with this saying that it is the responsibility of the parents to do this. 

The left are going to new lengths of vandalising Conservative MP's offices if they voted to not do this. Some Tory MP's and councils broke ranks and voted to pay for this and obviously Marcus Rashfird has taken a role in this campaign as well.

I do believe it is the responsibility of the parents to feed their children but then there are cases where parents work so hard and struggle on low-pay work and paying the bills etc. I know people that work, and have worked in schools, that tell me about how sometimes it is obvious kids are hungry and they try and get them food and larger portions. So I don't believe that any right-minded person should, or would, want to see children going hungry and I am shocked that given the large bill the Government is running up over the Covid pandemic they couldn't find the money, especially as they found money to give themselves a pay rise. That is not only despicable in my book but downright inconceivable that they would do that, plus giving themselves an extra £10K for working from home in the Covid lockdown. 

But on the other side of the argument, I can see why some people are against this as I saw on Sky News today a lady who was collecting packed lunches from a food charity and she said it was a lifeline as she couldn't afford to feed her kids. This lady had a large number of tattoos all over inc her neck. Whilst I do not have any myself, I understand that these can cost thousands, and you think with the number and size of them you think how can she not feed her kids but can find the money for all those tattoos? But that is not the best bit she had - wait for it...... 9 kids. That is ridiculous that as how did she think she could afford 9 kids. I know how much 3 can cost and whilst we all may love having children we stop at where the line crosses. If you were a multi-millionaire then fair enough but if you are a single parent and live on benefits how can you think it is ok to have 9 kids. Then she thinks it is only right the Government pay for them. What about her and the dad(s) pay for them? Hang on no it is all the other people that are working that are paying for them and I am sure no one minds helping those that need it in terms of benefits or other help but I am quite sure we all would agree with people like this take the Michael out of the system and I can see why some take issue with people like this. 

The issue with the example above is that the kids may go hungry because she can't afford to feed them and uses money on herself but we can't blame the children or let them go hungry but there has to be a way that people cannot misuse the money they get from benefits for themselves and not their children?