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Author Boston, Jonathan, 1957- author.

Title The child poverty debate : myths, misconceptions and misunderstandings / Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple
Published Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books Limited, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series BWB Texts
BWB texts.
Contents INTRODUCTION; 1. WHAT IS CHILD POVERTY?; Defining child poverty; Absolute and relative poverty; Child poverty and well-being; Measuring child poverty; Income and hardship measures of child poverty; Setting poverty lines; Poverty lines in New Zealand; Hardship measures; Assessing income-based and hardship-based measures; How many New Zealand children are poor or in hardship?; Child income poverty and hardship in New Zealand compared with developed countries; What has been happening to child poverty in New Zealand over time?
What are the family and personal characteristics of poor children?Child age and poverty; Family structure and child poverty; Work status and child poverty; Family size and child poverty; Ethnicity and child poverty; Disability and child poverty; Housing tenure and child poverty; Severity and persistence of child poverty; Conclusion; 2. MYTHS, MISCONCEPTIONS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS; Claim 1: There is little or no real child poverty in New Zealand; Claim 2: Many parents are lazy or irresponsible or misuse their resources and thus deserve to be poor
Claim 3: The real problem is that some people have too many childrenClaim 4: Assisting poor families will simply encourage them to have more children; Claim 5: The real problem is poor parenting; Claim 6: We can't do anything about child poverty; Claim 7: We can't afford to reduce child poverty; Claim 8: Reducing or even eliminating child poverty is relatively easy; Claim 9: Merely increasing the incomes of poor families will not solve child poverty; Conclusion; GLOSSARY; ENDNOTES; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; ABOUT BWB TEXTS
Summary "What is child poverty, what evidence is there of such poverty in New Zealand and why does it matter? These questions regularly attract answers accompanied by conjecture and prejudice. This short book uses the latest evidence and a non-partisan approach, identifying child poverty as a critical issue for New Zealand's future. Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple's succinct introduction to this challenge, drawn from their widely acclaimed full-length book and updated with new data, is essential reading"--Publisher information
Notes Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in EPUB. Nz
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Poor children -- New Zealand
Poverty -- New Zealand
Poor -- Government policy -- New Zealand
Poor children
Poor -- Government policy
Poverty
New Zealand
Form Electronic book
Author Chapple, Simon, author
ISBN 9781927277768
1927277760
1927277787
9781927277782