The history of child poverty in this group of statistics begins in 1959, but all throughout history there is evidence of child poverty. Whether it be that the family cannot take care or provide for their child, or the child is abandoned, sadly it happens quite frequently. It seems that in some places child poverty has increased drastically and in others it has begun to decrease.
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