"To reach an appropriate sum the Charity Commission proposed asking grief-stricken parents ‘exactly how close were you to your child?’; those found not to have

"To reach an appropriate sum the Charity Commission proposed asking grief-stricken parents ‘exactly how close were you to your child?’; those found not to have been close to their children would not be compensated." I have no words for this... Edit: My god, it just gets worse: "Mercifully, the proposal was never acted upon. The NCB initially offered £50 before raising it to the "generous offer" of £500. A more substantial sum, it was advised, would have destroyed the working class recipients not used to large amounts of money"