New Zealand should be
one of the best places to raise children. However, some New Zealanders do not
share this view as they and their children live in poverty.
People may think that poverty only exists in the countries of Africa. They can imagine a young child, whose ribs are showing, holding a bowl with outstretched arms and eyes open wide.
But poverty exists in our backyard too.
Boston and Chapple
(2014) state that “all poverty is relative and considered in comparison to others”
(p.23). This means that there is a distinction between child poverty in
countries like New Zealand and poorer countries. Organisations such as the
United Nations, the World Bank and the OECD make this distinction (Boston &
Chapple, 2014). Poverty then is about how people can “function in a society,
rather than merely and solely about survival” (Boston & Chapple, 2014, p.
23).
Boston and Chapple
(2014) define child poverty as “children who have insufficient income or
material resources to enable them to thrive” (p. 22).
In New Zealand one in
four children lives in poverty (Child Poverty Monitor, 2015). These children
miss out on the basics needs of life such as enough food to eat and a warm
place to live. This affects their well being, health and the way that they
learn.
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| Figure 1. I Can't Eat the Flag (From Kahkiwa, 2016). |
References:
Boston, J. & Chapple, S. (2014). Child poverty in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books.
Child poverty monitor. (2015).
Retrieved from http://www.childpoverty.co.nz/flow-infographics/income-poverty
Robyn Kahkiwa. (2016). I Can’t Eat the Flag. Retrieved from: https://www.facebook.com/photo.phpfbid=1110810335625837&set=ecnf.100000906447111&type= 3&theater
Kiaora Kylie. A very interesting topic that you have chosen and very disturbing to see that poverty affects 1 in 4 children. This post was very appealing to my eyes as well.I feel like poverty is a topic that everybody is aware off but nobody is doing anything about.And I also wonder why the government allows for 750 refugees to come into New Zealand who will be sheltered and fed yet the government can't feed the most vulnerable who were born here? Government determine everything. Truley disturbing
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Misskylie. (2016, March 22). Why do we have child poverty? Child Poverty in New Zealand. https://childpovertyandnz.blogspot.com/2016/03/wh.html
Misskylie. (2016, April 14). How early childhood settings help child poverty. Child Poverty in New Zealand. https://childpovertyandnz.blogspot.com/
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