Share of British Children in Relative Poverty, 1961 to 1997–1998
"Using the same type of relative measure (the share of children in families with incomes below 50 percent of average income), the child poverty rate rose from 8 percent in 1968 to around 25 percent in the 1990s. Thus, by the 1990s one in four British children were poor using the most widely accepted measure."—p. 24, Britain's War on Poverty