Key Causes Of Child Poverty

What is child poverty, its key causes and impacts?
The vision that most people associate with the term poverty is developing countries with widespread famine and disease killing the population, however in reality it also occurs in wealthy, well developed countries and is very much present in today’s society. This essay aims to explain what is understood to be child poverty by definition and to examine the key causes of child poverty, looking at issues such as unemployment and the factors associated with it, education and how a poor education can be a contributing cause of poverty and how social factors can also be an important cause in child poverty. Once the key causes have been examined and discussed it is then possible to identify the
In areas where low-income and people receiving benefits are higher, children are more likely to be truant from school and are more likely to demonstrate disruptive behaviour all contributing to low educational attainment. Under-privileged areas depend on help from the government through benefits and funding but due to current government cuts, projects like Sure Start have been stopped and families are no longer receiving help to improve children’s education and the lack of help or support given to families dependant on childcare means due to the high costs many parents simply can’t afford to go out to work and there is no incentive to encourage new parents to return to work (BBC,
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