| |
|
|
 |
 |
|
Please feel free to read and explore the materials in this section. If you are doing research and need help with something, we will try to assist you in any way we can. If you would like us to post something you have written, please contact us at : admin@adopteesolidarity.org. We will do our best to post all relevant materials; however, we reserve the right not to post your submission if we feel it is inappropriate.
Please note that anything downloaded from this site may not in any way be altered or reproduced without written permission from the author or artist. Thank you! |
|
All | News Articles | Documents | Laws & Regulations | ASK Publications | Video | Misc.
|
|
|
The Korea Herald
2008.5.21
1 out of 10 children in poverty: report
A new report showed that almost one out of 10 Korean children under age 18 lived in absolute or relative poverty in 2006.
The research conducted by Kim Mee-sook, research fellow of the child welfare team at the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, said a total of 545,000 children lived in absolute poverty and 915,925 remained in relative poverty in 2006.
The absolute poverty rate of families with children nationwide showed a slight decrease from 8.8 percent in 1999 to 6.7 percent in 2000 and to 4.4 percent in 2002. In 2006, it stood at 4.8 percent.
Absolute poverty measures the number of people living below the poverty threshold or those who are unable to afford certain basic goods and services.
Relative poverty rate of families with children decreased from 10.6 percent in 1999 to 9.8 percent in 2000, but it rose to 10.4 percent in 2003 and to 10.9 percent in 2005. It was 10.6 percent in 2006. The rate refers to the percentage of people in households which earn less than 50 percent of the median income.
Comparing Koreas poverty rate, which includes household and children poverty rates, to other countries, our country seems to stand somewhere in the middle, Kim said.
Considering that the nation doesnt have a low child poverty rate, this will present negative impacts on children in poverty, such as psychological, educational and health-related issues, which may raise real social problems.
According to the Luxembourg Income Study for 2000, Mexico recorded the highest child poverty rate with 26.9 percent, followed by the United States with 21.9 percent and the United Kingdom with 17 percent. The country with the lowest rate among all surveyed countries was Denmark with 2.7 percent, whereas Koreas rate stood at 9.8 percent. However, officials noted that Koreas rate only included families living in cities and not families living in the farming and fishing regions.
A system that provides combined services for children must be established in regional communities to seriously examine the real cases of children living in their areas as a critical countermeasure, said Kim. Discovering the flaws using the system will be a method that could prevent great loss of social costs at an early stage.
By Cho Ji-hyun
( sharon@heraldm.com)
 http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/
|
  |
| LAST UPDATE: 2008.09.18 - 04:42 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Name Search
De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized 2008.05.27
Guitarist Denis Sung-ho's Search for Self, Music 2009.05.15
