Child Poverty in Early Childhood Studies: Causes and Impacts

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EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES
OCTOBER 8, 2018

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Introduction-
Poverty is a significant socio-economic issue and it may have negative effects on the growth
of children. The poverty is situation of not having the resources to have fundamental human
requirements such as clean water, nourishment, healthcare, diet, sartorial, and a residence to
live. The child poverty means the state of children surviving in poverty. It relates to the
orphans who belong from poor family background or children being raised with restricted, or
in some matters vague, state sources. Children who fail to fulfil the minimum required norm
of the country where those children reside are said to be poor. In developing nations, these
norms are lesser and at the time of merging with the improved number of children, the
impacts are extreme.
In this report, the issue of child poverty in relation to early childhood, causes of child poverty
and impacts of child poverty are discussed and critically examined.
Overview of child poverty-
The most of poverty-stricken orphans are born in poor families. There are many causes of the
poverty of people such as sickness, concerned accountabilities, sorrow, incapacity,
redundancy, or less pay (Hair, et. al, 2015). Lack of parental financial sources such as non-
refundable income limits the chances of children’s opportunities. Many individuals in less-
paid work are authorised to advantages to increase their salary because it is not sufficient to
survive. Work does not give the assured way out of poverty in the United Kingdom. Two
third of the children growing up in poverty live in the family where minimum one participant
does work.
Children living in poverty is the serious issue in United Kingdom. More than 14 million
individuals involving 4.5 million children are residing beyond the breadline, with more than

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half confined in poverty for, in accordance with the new measure targeted at giving the most
refined examination yet of material drawback in the United Kingdom. The persons in poverty
are slightly higher than prior data such as; it is found 4.5 million of orphans are in poverty as
compared to 4.1 million of orphans. It is found that poverty is predominant in family with
minimum one incapacitated individual, single-parent family, and families where no one has
job or that are dependent for earning on unequal or zero hour works (Bradshaw, 2016).
The comparative less income measure should remain essential to child poverty measurement.
This measure must be revised to take account of the multidimensional strategy being taken to
assessing child poverty. It is recommended that the child must be measured to be income
poor, if they are in the household that lives on less than sixty percent average income, as
measured after housing cost. It must also involve extra equalisation to take account of the
extra cost of incapacity. The Child Poverty Act sets an obligation on the government to work
towards the abolition of child poverty in United Kingdom by year 2020 (Andresen, Fegter
and Hurrelmann, 2017).
Children growing up in poverty experience various drawbacks that accrue through the life
cycle. The Child Poverty Act measures child poverty in accordance with the four measures.
First measure is relative low income: connecting to children living in homes that have the
income below relative poverty line. The second measure is combined low income and
material deficiency. The third measure is absolute less income. The fourth measure is
persistent poverty. The development of government towards finishing child poverty in United
Kingdom is evaluated in accordance with the growth on the four measures. The relative low
income aim is regularly utilised as the significant pointer for evaluating the stages of child
poverty in United Kingdom as this measure examine the scope to which the less income
people are keeping speed with the progress in economy generally (Ridge, 2011). It identifies
the significance not only of absolute less income, but also of less income relative to other