as 1 in 5 experience hardship by age 12
For some children, school is the main place they’re being fed.
High school students are getting jobs to help their parents, and older kids are going without food so there’s more for their younger siblings, a leading children’s charity says.
New research shows one in five young New Zealanders have experienced material hardship by their pre-teen years.
On Wednesday, longitudinal study Growing Up in New Zealand released the first tranche of findings from ‘Now We Are Twelve’, which involved about 4500 young people and their whānau.
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