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Re: Child poverty in the UK
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Originally Posted by You Are Gay
According to that article child poverty is where "children [are] living in households with less than 60% of the national average income after taking housing costs into account."
As mentioned previously poverty is measured against other people and is as such bollocks.
I predict that using the current standard more and more children will be brought up in "poverty" as the rich are getting far richer (rather than poor people getting poorer).
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Is it really bollocks? Is the fact that a child born into a poor family is likely to die younger than someone born into a more affluent family a worthless consideration?
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