Children's poverty

I read one article on children's poverty this morning. According to it, relatively speaking, Japan is high in terms of children's poverty rate among OECD countries. The writer says, parents financial ability tend to decide children's growth and education. I know I need to examine in detail, but the article mentions that a number of crime such as child abuse, thief, and the like tend to be caused by children in low income family.

The article also introduces the difference on what should be given to children between British and Japanese. The rate of what should be given is as follows:
--Toys 12% 84%
--Bicycle 21% 55%
--non second-hand shoes 40% 94%
--books for children 51% 89%

Which one is Japanese? The answer is the former one. The writer says Japanese tend to set the notion on minimum level of quality of life comparing with other developed countries. I say, Japanese may tend to hesitate to use money generally. Problem will be the case that parents cannot afford to get toys or books even though they wish to give them to their children.