2023-07-08 03:55:43
Six out of ten girls, boys and adolescents lack guarantees for the fulfillment of at least one basic right such as food, decent housing or education.
“Child poverty is stagnant at around 60%, and indigence has decreased slightly,” Ianina Tuñón, researcher responsible for the Argentine Social Debt Barometer at the Argentine Catholic University, told PROFILE.
While at a general level indigence reached 8.1% of the population during the third quarter of 2022, in the group of children and adolescents this figure rose to 13.1%.
The latest INDEC report indicates that a little more than half (54.2%) of people between the ages of 0 and 14 are poor, a percentage that drops to 45% of those between 15 and 29 years of age, and 35% from 30 to 64.
The drop in levels of homelessness and food insecurity are related, according to the Observatory, to the growing number of people accessing indirect food aid (such as the Universal Child Allowance) and direct (in school and community canteens), which today arrive to 59% of the population. However, these measures “are insufficient,” they said.
Food insecurity, the pedagogue Nicolás Wildner Sánchez assured PERFIL, “conspires against the constitution of cognitive structures”, something that, in the case of children who do not access it, “places them at a developmental disadvantage”.
For the teacher María Laura Puebla, “what affects is the context.” Puebla assured PROFILE that “many children do not have help at home because their parents did not finish their studies,” and that many others go to work.
Currently, child labor, which is divided between intensive domestic activities and in the external labor market, is carried out by more than 15% of the country’s children and adolescents.
For this reason, Tuñón concluded, “we have an important debt with children.”
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