<story><title>Poverty hurts children in ways we&apos;re beginning to understand</title><url>https://lithub.com/poverty-hurts-children-in-ways-were-just-beginning-to-understand/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>altacc</author><text>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&amp;#x27;t afford&amp;#x2F;care for&amp;#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&amp;#x27;t make those choices and they now exist in their circumstances through no fault of their own.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re consistently condemning the children for the sins of their parents to appease this view and severely reducing these children&amp;#x27;s potential, and in doing so reducing the potential of the country. As this article shows, the cost to a country&amp;#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&amp;#x27;s not as bad as it used to be, we can certainly do better.</text></comment>
<story><title>Poverty hurts children in ways we&apos;re beginning to understand</title><url>https://lithub.com/poverty-hurts-children-in-ways-were-just-beginning-to-understand/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdlecler1</author><text>Housing is an enormous tax, and rent seeking just transfers money from the poor to the rich. Rather than giving everyone money, I would prefer to see a market solution where we greatly lower the costs for things at the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid.</text></comment>