Child Poverty Worse It Was In The 1960S

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401664/Britains-child-poverty-social-apartheid-Problems-faced-young-worse-1960s-claim-researchers.html

How can this possibly be, answers please?

[ummmm]

Didn't the main bread winner get tax breaks though?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Old Geezer, the birth rate has declined since the 1960s.

/// In July 2011, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced a 2.4 percent increase in live births in the UK in 2010. This is the highest birth rate in the UK in 40 years. ///

[zebo]

AOG, the Family Allownce of 8 shillings was paid for the second child onwards, not the first. As the eldest, I always felt unloved by the Govt.

[DJHawkes]

but wasn't it only paid from aged 5?

[seadogg]

Super question aog and a fascinating discussion. Maybe when P.M. Macmillan told us we had "never had it so good" in '57 he might have added, or will have it so good again.

[Gromit]

AOG

/// In July 2011, the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced a 2.4 percent increase in live births in the UK in 2010. This is the highest birth rate in the UK in 40 years. ///

That means not for 40 years has there been an increase of 2.4%. For over 40 years the birthrate has declined. So for one year, 2011 it may have risen slightly but the previous 4 decades, it reduced.