factors such as family size whether or not a child lives with both parents the educational climate at home ethnicity geographical area socioeconomic status and gender age birthorder and other characteristics provide a full picture of the childrens situation and of generally overlooked aspects of child poverty the drop in total and extreme child poverty levels has also been associated with a lesser intensity of poverty understood as the number of simultaneous deprivations or violations of basic rights albeit to differing degrees from one country to another whereas an individual analysis of deprivations by dimension is useful for identifying which rights are most breached among children and adolescents in general a look at those dimensions among the poor or extremely poor specifically helps identify priority areas for the action of social policy and its sectoral components