Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Age: Children
- 3.6 million children
are in poverty
today
- 27% of children
- 62% of children live in
a household with at
least one income
- 16 year old's
receiving free
school achieve 1.7
grades lower than
those who don't
- 2.5 times more
likely to suffer
from chronic
illness
- From 2012/13 300,000 more
children will live in poverty in
2015/16
- Flaherty (2004):
children in poverty are
more likely to have
- Low birth weight
- Be injured in accidents
- Suffer abuse
- Self-harm and
attempt suicide
- Townsend founded
CPAG (Child Poverty
Action Group)
- UNICEF (2005)
- In league table showing 26th richest
countries: UK had more children in poverty
- Gordon et al (2000)
- If poverty is defined by
lack one or more necessity
- 34% of children lacked
one ore more (2000)
- 18% lacked two
or more (2000)
- Adelman (2003)
- Parents protect their
children and go out
without necessities