However it's far more common to find deprived areas with ill/un educated families on benefits and living far less healthy lifestyles and taking all the advantages of the state. This just makes better car crash TV and rag articles.
Obviously, there are loads of such families about. What separates this couple from those though, is their conscious choice that their children be poorly educated, poorly fed and denied medical treatment. Poor families in deprived areas still send their kids to school, and to a doctor when sick, so at least there is a chance of educational and medical professionals making a difference where the feckless parents can't. These smug, lazy idiots are deliberately depriving their children, through a misguided sense of superiority.