Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods, of Liverpool, where hunger has become a way of life during father Harryβs unemployment as his family of five survive on Β£1 a day. The wallpaper in their council house is torn and there are no clothes in the coupleβs wardrobe and no sheets on their bed. The family have never had a holiday and Harry tells Pilger: βIt would be easier to serve time than to put up with this.β