children

Inequalities among children

Nationality

Different childhoods and different life chances.

90% of the world’s low birth weight babies are born in the 3^rd world.

Gender

Bonke found that girls do more domestic labour ESPECIALLY in lone-parent families where they do 5 times more than boys.

Social class

Poor mothers are more likely to have low birth-weight babies, which in turn is linked to delayed physical and intellectual development

Woodroffe found that children of unskilled manual workers are more likely to suffer…