Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

 

Child poverty is not just a single situation for one child and one family, but a phenomenon of children (plural) living in poor quality. Child poverty is specifically found among children who are from poor families or children whose parents are deceased or not present.

Child poverty is present in numerous countries. I carefully examined child poverty in Mexico. I selected Mexico because many of my students and or their families are from Mexico and it is important to understand where they have come from in an effort to embrace their culture and past. During my study of UNICEF’s page located at (http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_childpoverty.html), I found three insights that:

1.    There are a number of areas in which Mexican boys and girls suffer disadvantages.

2.    About 25% of Mexican children (10 million approximately) lived in conditions of food poverty in 2005; in other words, they lived in homes where income was insufficient to purchase the basic food basket.

3.    According to international standards, 8% of the children in the country (3.3 millions) were in families who had less than one dollar per capita expenditure in 2005

References

UNICEF. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_childpoverty.html