Child poverty

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Child poverty simply refers to the phenomenon of children living in poverty, that is, they live with a limited amount or lack of basic resources like food, clothing and shelter. Poor children generally come from poor families or are orphans who are raised with limited or absent fundamental means. Some of those children often become street children and lack education. Children that fail to meet the minimum acceptable standard of life for the nation where they live are said to be poor. In less-developed or in developing countries these standards are lower and when considering the increased number of orphans, the effects are more extreme...