Quote

Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is read to or hugged.

— Nicholas Kristof

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.

— Geoffrey Canada

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

— Jeff Bridges

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

— Grace Poe

I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

— Sal Albanese

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

— Woody Allen

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

— Jo Cox

The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.

— Bill Flores

I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

— Kailash Satyarthi

✗Opposing Perspectives

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

— Alison Gopnik

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

— Madeleine M. Kunin