@article{713ef34648c842e8b23d7c9a60991a6b,
title = "Eating with Friends, Family or Not at All: Young People's Experiences of Food Poverty in the UK",
abstract = "The paper draws on findings from a study called {\textquoteleft}Families and Food in Hard Times{\textquoteright}, which is examining food poverty among children and families in three European countries. In the UK, qualitative interviews were carried out with 45 11–15 year olds and their parents or carers. Young people's narratives reveal food poverty as a multi-dimensional experience, including hunger, poor quality food and social exclusion. Analysis suggests a limited degree of sharing of food between young people and how they contribute to the family's management of food practices in constrained circumstances. Generally young people contest the dominant discourses which blame food poverty on individuals and families.",
keywords = "children, families, food, poverty, qualitative, UK",
author = "Abigail Knight and Rebecca O'Connell and Julia Brannen",
note = "Funding Information: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union{\textquoteright}s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 337977. We are very grateful to the children and parents who generously gave their valuable time to participate in the study and to the anonymous reviewers for helpful feedback on earlier drafts of this paper. Funding Information: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 337977. We are very grateful to the children and parents who generously gave their valuable time to participate in the study and to the anonymous reviewers for helpful feedback on earlier drafts of this paper. Funding Information: The study called {\textquoteleft}Families and Food in Hard Times{\textquoteright} is funded by the European Research Council. It examines the extent and experience of food poverty among children and families in three European countries, including the UK. Alongside secondary analysis of large scale data, in all three countries qualitative interviews were carried out with young people (aged 11–15 years) and their parents or carers in two contrasting study areas, in the years 2015– 2017. 45 families took part in the UK and Portugal and 43 families in Norway. In the UK, 30 of the sample lived in a London borough and 15 in an English coastal town, both areas with high child poverty rates of over 40% (after housing costs) (End Child Poverty, 2016). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and National Children's Bureau",
year = "2018",
month = may,
doi = "10.1111/chso.12264",
language = "English",
volume = "32",
pages = "185--194",
journal = "Children and Society",
issn = "0951-0605",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "3",
}