Childhood Poverty and Social Exclusion: From a Child's Perspective

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Policy Press, 2002 - Political Science - 178 pages
Nearly one third of British children lived in poverty in 2000 and 2001. Ridge (U. of Bath, UK) conducted interviews with 40 children in order to explore how the children themselves experience their lives, particularly in relation to the economic and social pressures that impact on children's experiences and perceptions of school. The sample is divided nearly equally between rural and urban children, single-parent and two-parent families, and boys and girls. The analysis of the qualitative study is supplemented with an examination of quantitative data from the British Household Panel Youth Survey. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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two What do we know about childhood poverty?
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three Childrens access to economic and material resources
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social relations and social integration
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