tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080959.post-1150905798509423432006-06-21T16:44:00.000+01:002006-06-22T17:52:38.390+01:00In a survey of nearly 400 parents of children under the age of 17, it was found that one in four steal money from their children. The survey, by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bankwest</span> in Australia, also found that 20% of child thieves use the money to pay for utility bills. An astonishing 16% put the money toward a new car or holiday.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mooky.net/uploaded_images/piggy6-773455.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.mooky.net/uploaded_images/piggy6-772080.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">"If you can't find any money, you know the one place you can always rely on is the kids' piggy banks,” </span>says Paul Vivian, head of retail deposits for Bankwest.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> “But my wife always makes sure I put it back - with interest." </span><br /><br />I’m sure she does Paul, but then she probably only makes you do that because she knows that she’s twice as likely to steal it back again. Some 35% of mothers steal money from their kids as opposed to just 16% of dads.<br /><br />You can just picture Mr crack dealer waiting outside the family house for payment, while an 8 year old girl pokes her finger forlornly at what remains of her piggy bank: porcelain and dust. Meanwhile mum and dad are doing lines of coke off the spoiler of their brand new Ferrari, probably enroute to some sort of sex cruise.mookynoreply@blogger.com