This chapter examines the relationship between monetary poverty and the social wellbeing of children in Norway. Poverty not only has immediate material consequences for children but increases the risk of social marginalization and hampers future life chances. This chapter asks whether Norwegian policies are adequate in order to secure children decent living conditions; economically or materially as well as socially. Examining laws and conventions concerning the rights of poor children and empirical evidence of children's living conditions, it provides a partly mixed picture of progress and presents some of the dilemmas policy makers face when children's rights are implemented. Finally, measures to improve children's living conditions in Norway are presented.
Children’s Rights in Norway. An Implementation Paradox? Malcolm Langford, Marit Skivenes & Karl Harald Søvig
Fløtten, T. (2019). Poor, but included? In M. Langford, M. Skivenes & K. H. Søvig (eds.), Children’s Rights in Norway. An Implementation Paradox? Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215031415-2019-08
