Fernando Aguirre has a good post on his site, TheModernSurvivialist.com on some of the problems that children face during and after a economic collapse.

http://www.themodernsurvivalist.com/archives/2421

I’ve been receiving email and messages lately regarding the issue of kids and how an economic crisis can affect them. This would also apply to other long term SHTF events where daily life is disrupted and changes for the worse. I am drawing here from my own personal experience in Argentina during and after the crisis and also what was happening to others at that time. Besides that, I have gathered information over the years regarding what happened in other places during other long term disasters. Using that information I can boil it down to three main problems that specifically affect a child and you should prepare to deal with them."

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Aguirre often speaks about a more quick collapse than we envision here on the GW site, but he lived thru the collapse in Argentina and his observations and lessons learn are both informative and downright scary.

When you consider that many families of the 19th century had one or more children die in childbirth (and mothers too), or survive and not make it past their third year, children especially will need care as society navigates the Long Descent.