Interviews with female prisoners in WA show many struggled with violence, drugs, alcohol, poverty and homelessness from an early age.
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Most Australians earn more than their parents.
But those born into the poorest families face the biggest barriers to improving their lot.
As a woman living on the disability support pension put it: ‘You don’t have the flexibility that a rich person has to respond to crisis, so you have to beg for help. And you know you’ll be judged’.
One 11-year old girl told us she knows once rent is paid, there is almost nothing left over. So she never takes school excursion notes home, in case the cost is too much.
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Sharon Bessell is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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