Child poverty: The shocking ins and outs

Child poverty rates are edging up in many countries creating a risk society. It is endangering the fate and future of the child population of the world. This present research paper on “Child Poverty: The Shocking Ins and Outs” aims to shed light on the complex issues of child poverty and its impact on the children during their development period. The paper is the outcome of a micro study in the city of Bhubaneswar. Quantitative, qualitative and participatory methods have been applied to elicit the real information relating to the issue under treatment. The study discovered that child poverty brings deprivations, vulnerability and exclusion. Poverty brings resource deficit, difficult roles, risks, strained relationship for a child and prevents the enjoyment of rights. Child poverty creates a risk trajectory. Deprivations and disadvantages bring them a negative perception. The study concludes the conventional monetary approach cannot be taken as the sole measure of child poverty. Right based approach, role assessment according to age, risk factors encountered by a child, nature of relationships a child establishes with others and possession of the quantum and quality social, emotional, cultural, and moral and knowledge resources should be taken as the yardsticks to measure child poverty.