There are, to be sure, fewer inscriptions and no very lengthy ones, but that too reflects the relative poverty of public culture.
We should all do our best to lessen poverty and suffering and make the world a more equal place.
Poverty was the main reason why children were boarded out, frequently associated with loss of parents and difficulties in providing for a large household.
The foundlings may therefore have come from parishes containing wealthy individuals, but also a large degree of poverty and indigence.
According to this interpretation, the aged ordinarily resided with their adult children only out of necessity, especially in cases of poverty or infirmity.
Secondly, they actively carried out and published social surveys of urban poverty.
The overseers (homen iin) measured the degree of poverty in almost the same way.
The second issue concerns poverty and other social problems, as well as efforts to deal with those problems.
