Child Poverty: Is the End Near? The article "Breakdown of family blamed for child poverty" found in the Tuesday March 23, 1999 edition of the Toronto Star, informs the public of a very serious problem - child poverty. Although child poverty is basically a worldwide problem, Canada is determined to eliminate it on its own turf. The problem however is "child poverty has increased by more than 50 per cent since the House of Commons voted in 1989 to …
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…will not be able to operate in school efficiently. Health care is also tied into this because if a child is not eating properly, health problems will occur. Once categorised, child poverty is a hard situation to recover from. All in all child poverty in not a winning situation and although some cases are worse than others are, we, as the advantaged must attempt to aid this problem because one case is one to many.