Problems of social sustainability: economic poverty and children’s rights.

The issue of poverty is important not only in developing societies, but also in those that are more economically and technologically developed. In the international context, Italy maintains critical situations with significant manifestations, on a quantitative and qualitative level, of absolute and relative poverty. The data confirms a growing and never-surpassed trend of dualisms between North and South, with critical issues that involve families and individuals. Interventions necessary to rebalance the situation require reflections on the level of fair reciprocity and redistribution of economic, social, health and cultural resources. Social policies called upon to design contrast strategies are inevitably involved. The issue of poverty opens up to more general problems relating to rights and their enforceability, especially for minors, who are often more exposed to the risks associated with the various forms of economic deprivation. The rights of minors are expressed, in the different dimensions of life, in terms of the necessary sustainability of protection and safeguard of social systems in which the phenomenon of poverty presents itself with significant criticality at the macro and micro-social level. In this regard, no less exempt from the duties of protection and safeguarding of minors is the social subsystem of large-scale communications.