Thursday 29 October 2009
Tackle causes of child poverty, not just symptons
"factors which do contribute to child poverty: living in a jobless household, low educational attainment and truancy, family breakdown, teenage smoking and obesity, to name but a few"
"factors which do contribute to child poverty: living in a jobless household, low educational attainment and truancy, family breakdown, teenage smoking and obesity, to name but a few"
Natalie's partial list is of factors that contribute to child failure, not child poverty - and she missed the big 2 that cause most child failure: parental indifference and active parental animosity.
True, all of these factors are more prevalent in poor homes than more affluent ones.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 07:03 
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