The childcare issue is one people should consider before having children.

Consider also that the problem was one that parents had to manage until about 30 years ago. These days, it seems that many people give birth to children and then think about the responsibilities associated with their upbringing.

These days, parents seem entitled to pass the buck for the upbringing of their children in schools and other institutions. They also hold their hands to be ‘compensated’ for the ‘inconvenience’ of having children.

There are parents who plan their families and prioritise their children over everything else in life – but it often seems they are in a minority.

I pity children who grow up in our modern times feeling unwanted and unloved. Institutionalised children and dispassionate, ultimately disinterested parents do nothing for our social future.

And than we wonder at the behaviours of those children, when so many of them must feel unwanted and unloved.