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He continues: “I do get emails from people who say, ‘Adam, your films are not for children.’

Jimmy Morris and his three children — two teenage sons and a teenage daughter — are among the families that might fall through the cracks.

“We have horrible, disgusting, dangerous, filthy encampments of junkies and homeless people living in places that our children used to play Little League baseball, which they don’t get to play very much anymore, do they?”

Of the total responses, 72% stated they lost wages because of air quality or school closures that forced them to leave their jobs to pick up their children, and 14% were evacuated from their homes.

He added that benefit rises linked to having children had gone up by less than pension payments, adding: "Inequality is generational, and the generation that experiences it the most are the young".