Table of contents

1. Hegyi Gyula : Child poverty in rich countries
2. Siomos Angéla, Hotzer Gábor : The second unemplyed generation in the making
3. Vijay Prashad : Calloused consciousness
4. Darvas Ágnes, Tausz Katalin : Child poverty and family assistence
5. Susan Zimmermann : Children of the world – facts and factors
6. Z. Karvalics László : Children at the edge of the digital gap
7. Krausz Tamás : The Stalinist School of conspiracy theories
8. Gertje R. Utley : Picasso and the party line
9. Janine R. Wedel : The Harvard, the Chubais-clan and the wasting of Russia
10. Edward Herman, David Peterson : Kosovo one year later
11. Perczel István : Humanitarian war
12. Háborús Bűnök Népbírósága : The guilty NATO
13. Norman Finkelstein : The Holocaust industry (conclusions)
14. Krausz Tamás : On Norman Finkelstein: The Holocaust industry

Legends of European literature and history often tell us about the child who was born to a poor family but being clever and talented rose above others. For the Christian Europe the proto-type was presented by Jesus himself who was born in a stable and lived the life of the poor until the triumphant resurrection.

This study examines the issue of child poverty. Central to the analysis is the role of unemployment in the family and its effects on children. The study describes aspects of the life of children and their early integration in the world of work. It outlines trends of their future and makes suggestions about their prospects.

It is not possible to resolve the problem of child poverty if we separate this issuefrom the wider issue of exploitation. By doing that, we shift the responsibility onto the world system that makes these and other extreme forms of exploitation. The article was first published in Dollars and Sense September-October 1999.

Child poverty and income inequalities among families with children have increased steadily in the co-called developed countries of the West too. Recently, there is a threat that these differences will increase sustantially. Mainstream experts usually justify this process by ecoinomic necessities. This paper demonstrates these trends on the example of East European countries.