Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the politicalagenda. The key new issue addressed in this … research is the relativeimportance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlatesof outcomes later in life. How far … poverty? If there are powerful associations of both childhoodpoverty and early parenthood with later adult outcomes, there are …

limited to standardeconomic measures of poverty based on incomes or expenditures,but also include trends in selected … thepopulation is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen,joblessness has increased, school enrolment has dropped andgeneral …