Danny Dorling Seven Children Q&A: money and thrift

Money, thrift, and the poorest and best-off of seven children
Geographer and author Danny Dorling discusses his forthcoming book Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation (Hurst), out on 26 September 2024
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The poorest 6% of children are poorer than her [Anna]. Her mum is extremely good at budgeting. She doesn’t go cold. Her mum manages to actually eat the home.
The child at the top [Gemma] has 6% of children above her, which means that she looks pretty typical, certainly in how she might be portrayed in a newspaper or on the news. Her family are not jetting around. They won't have a really expensive car. They could just about pay for her to go to private school, but she’d be the poorest child in a private school if they did, and they’d be giving up everything else to do that. Mum and Dad run a corner shop, and they run it well.
There’s a story of kind of thrift that goes throughout this book. You know, the poorest child and the best-off child have parents who are thrifty, and the other five in between also do, because you cannot bring up young children in Britain - unless you’re incredibly affluent, you know, unless you’re incredibly affluent - you cannot do it on the incomes that people have unless you’re very careful with money.
Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's next generation
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