Nearly half a million children under 3 years old are at risk of poverty. Alarming figures, particularly because they do not refers to a developing country, but to the queen of the European economy: Germany. The phenomenon is particularly pronounced among the inhabitants of Berlin and Eastern regions. Just think that in 2010 36.3% of children in the capital had parents who were dependent on federal support services. There are two main causes of a high and so unexpected percentage: the boom in single-parent families and the unemployment rate which is about twice the national average. A framework in itself worrying, that is getting worse if you take into account only the former-communists Lander. Where more than 28.1% of the under-3 lives on the threshold of minimum subsistence. The only positive note is that from 2008 there was a -5%. This is revealed by the study of the Bertelsmann Foundation, which for the first time takes into account – in addition to regions Länder – even districts and cities with more than 100 thousand inhabitants.
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