Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand
In discussions about low income families I often see somebody comment along the lines of blaming the parents for making bad choices and choosing to have children they couldn&#x27;t afford&#x2F;care for&#x2F;want. This is used as a reason not to provide any social support to those families as they see it as rewarding bad behaviour. But these children didn&#x27;t make those choices and they now exist in their circumstances through no fault of their own.<p>We&#x27;re consistently condemning the children for the sins of their parents to appease this view and severely reducing these children&#x27;s potential, and in doing so reducing the potential of the country. As this article shows, the cost to a country&#x27;s society and economy of poverty and low standards of living is very large and over a long time span. Our governments should be doing more to tackle child poverty as whilst it&#x27;s not as bad as it used to be, we can certainly do better.