- families without a working parent;
- lone parent families;
- families with young mothers (aged 16 to 24);
- minority ethnic families;
- families with three or more children;
- families containing one or more disabled persons, either a child or an adult.
The effects of poverty are:
- one in three children do not have three meals a day;
- one in three children lack adequate clothing, particularly shoes and winter coats;
- poverty in childhood increases the likelihood of unemployment and low income in adulthood. In 1993-95 the infant mortality rate for social class 5 was 70 per cent higher than that for social class 1;
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