Thief Swipes Donated Christmas Gifts From Church

[shadowshiv]

Shadow, I've become pretty jaded about donating toys over the years.

A friend of SCB' is on Mothers Allowance, gets knocked up, everytime they tell her it's time to get back in the work force. Her family is adopted by a Church family every year at Christmas. We visited them once, right after Christmas. You couldn't walk through the govt housing livingroom, for all the toys, and not just cheap stuff. Electric ride'm cars, computer games, and so on.

All I could think of was, how does this teach her kids to provide for themselves? To strive for a better self productive life?

I get what you're saying Bear, it's just that there are families that truly need those gifts. It is for those families, and not for the ones like you described in your post. There are scammers of the system everywhere("Welfare Bums", for example. Those that don't need to be on Welfare, they choose to be because it means not having to work). I feel that more good than bad is done with these programs, to be honest.

Oh yes. Like in that old Salvation Army Christmas commercial they used to run where the little boy comes downstairs and is overwhelmingly delighted to see that one teddy bear under the tree. Damn, that was heartbreaking.

Exactly! I know that getting gifts isn't the true meaning of Christmas, but the joy that can brighten up their faces makes it a nice part of it.