You sound like a woman after my own heart askyourgran! I totally agree with everything you say, there are families like that in our town, I look at them and feel very angry when I see them smoking, swearing at (and whacking) their children, they get much more in benefits than we get weekly, we are having to live off our savings now which we saved for our retirement and because of this little pension pot we innocently squirrelled away for our old age in a building society we can't claim a penny off the state! They just get money thrown at them from everywhere, free housing free council tax, child tax credits, child benefit, no wonder they are laughing at us pensioners!