An article in The Guardian reveals a dire situation: Unicef bureaucrats never took Stat W1111.
Despite government efforts to improve the living conditions of poor children, the UK still has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world, Unicef reported today.
Approximately one in seven children grow up in poverty in the UK, defined by Unicef as households with income below 50% of the national average. With 15.4% of British children falling into that category, the UK ranked seventh from bottom of a list of 24 industrialised nations studied by Unicef.
If the liberated above-avg. income earners of Britain would simply cut back on birth control, Britain could rise to lead Europe in the proportion of young haves to young have-lesses.
UPDATE: Oops, sort of. See comments....