Child poverty is a huge problem today. More than 3.5 million children in the UK alone live in poverty, with 1.6 million living in extreme poverty. Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. Children are people between birth and full growth. And when you put the two together you get child poverty. Child poverty is a growing problem we face. More and more children are falling into poverty for many different reasons. Children generally live in poverty due to low income and high unemployment rates. The state in which these children live affects their health, education and social life. In some countries there is a lack of employment, which is a very common scenario for the causes of poverty. Parents cannot find work and therefore cannot provide for their family. With adults unable to find a job and earning no income, children are uneducated and have no money; they are therefore reduced to living a life of poverty. A single parent is another common way for people to fall into poverty. If a single parent has children and does not have a well-paying job, they will struggle to provide for their children. This could cause parents to be overworked trying to provide for the family, they could also have poor mental and physical health, and it could also affect the children mentally and physically. Many different factors cause poverty, leading families with young children to live in poverty. This is a current problem that is growing. People may not pay much attention to these children, but they are the future and they need help. Child poverty exists in almost every country, even if it doesn't seem like it... middle of paper ... because there are children like her in Hong Kong who will grow up to make the same work. the jobs his parents do. Hong Kong is one of the richest cities in Asia and is home to some of the richest people in the world. But it appears that around a fifth of Hong Kong's population lives below the poverty line. As Hunt says, around 1.3 million people, or about 19.6% of Hong Kong's population, live below the poverty line. This was recorded in 2012. In Hong Kong, the majority of families have domestic help, and for this reason we are used to having people take care of us by cleaning our homes, washing dishes and cleaning our clothes. So why would anyone pay attention to less wealthy people and those who cannot afford the luxuries that the average Hong Kong family would have? As a community we should do everything we can