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Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today (theconversation.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Bampot to c/bletheringskite

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Children’s lives in the UK are changing.

They are becoming shorter in height. More of them are going hungry than they were a few years ago. Recently, more have died each year than they did a few years ago. Increased poverty, more destitution and the effects of ongoing austerity are the clear culprits.

But why did this happen to our children? This rise in child poverty is a change that has not been found to have occurred to the same extent anywhere else in the world, among all the places that the United Nations measures in the same way.

In future, almost all our children will tell their stories of growing up in the UK of the 2020s and – hopefully – what changed to make things better. It is hard to imagine them becoming much worse.

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[–] Kyrgizion 1 points 2 months ago

We're all going back to the gilded age. Soon we'll see the resurgence of poorhouses and workhouses for the destitute, mark my words. Why not asylums instead of medical facilities for the mentally ill while we're at it?