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Family misfortunes: the links between child and pensioner poverty
- Authors:
- END CHILD POVERTY, AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report argues that poor children are tomorrow’s poor pensioners. Poor children have decreased life chances – they are more likely to leave school at a young age with fewer qualifications, more likely to experience unemployment as a young adult, more likely to earn a lower wage and therefore less likely to face old age with personal savings and an adequate pension. Equally older people are often central to helping their families stay out of poverty or cope with the effects of poverty. Many families rely on grandparent childcare each week and lone parent families may be particularly likely to depend on older family members for support.