Seven Children : Inequality and Britain's Next Generation - Danny Dorling

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Seven Children

Inequality and Britain's Next Generation

By: Danny Dorling

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Paperback | 3 January 2025

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320 Pages

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Suppose you chose seven typical children to represent today's UK. Who would they be? What would they reveal?

Seven Children is about hidden realities of injustice and hope. In his highly original, thought- provoking new book, inequality writer Danny Dorling constructs seven 'average' children from millions of statistics-each child symbolising the very middle of a parental income bracket. From the poorest to the wealthiest, Dorling's seven children were born in 2018, when the UK faced its worst inequality since the Great Depression and became Europe's most socially divided nation. They turned 5 in 2023, amid a devastating cost- of-living crisis. Their country has Europe's fastest- rising child poverty rates, and even the best-off of the seven is disadvantaged. Yet aspirations prevail, and change is possible.

Immersive and intimate, this book gets to the heart of post-pandemic Britain's most pressing economic, social and political issues. What do we miss when we focus only on the superrich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British children living, between those two extremes? Who are today's real middle class? And what if tomorrow's challenge isn't spiralling inequality, but how to reverse the new trend that leaves all children worse off than their parents?

Industry Reviews

'No-one plucks the heart strings like Danny Dorling, but he does it with devastating facts and graphs. This searing book spells out British children's lives, divided by the deepest inequality since the 1930s. Read it and pass it to anyone who doesn't know how we live now.' -- Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist
'Campaigners are often told that we need both statistics and stories to make the case for change, but few have taken this as seriously as Danny Dorling. This is a rich and engaging portrait of children's life chances in contemporary Britain.' -- Kate Pickett, co-author of 'The Spirit Level'
'Dorling could have just left us with the devastating stats on how Britain has lost it in the equality stakes. But his brilliant journey through seven imaginary young lives shows exactly how--and why--children face an unfair future.' -- Vicky Pryce, author of 'Women vs Capitalism'
'A must-read for anyone concerned about Britain's future. With poignancy and creativity, Dorling shows us the average child's reality, and challenges us to create a more-than-average future, for everyone to thrive. An engaging, robust book that should be on the Prime Minister's desk.' -- Lord Adebowale CBE, Chair of the NHS Confederation

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