key terms

Cards (4)

  • absolute poverty - a person who has no access to their basic needs such as food, water, clothes and warmth
  • relative poverty - a person whos living conditions are not as good as expected such as not having wifi
  • material deprivation - not having things needed to live a good life
  • cultural deprivation - lacking the values, knowledge and ideas needed to succeed. some children grow up in families that lack the values and knowledge to help their children break out of poverty