The Paraclete Academy provides after school enrichment programs in the South Boston community that aims to erase the education disparity between inner city children and their more affluent peers.

It has also been shown that poor children loose time more over summer breaks when more affluent peers are traveling or involved in cultural enrichment activities.

But at 60 per cent offending, such children were being no more criminal - and sometimes considerably less criminal - than their more affluent peers.

The report states that "there is ample evidence that qualified young people from families of modest means are far less likely to go to college than their affluent peers with similar qualifications."

When Structural Vulnerability strikes the household poor children are more likely than their affluent peers to encounter a lengthy list of health problems.

Yet there is still a huge disparity in educational achievement between disadvantaged students and their more affluent peers.

On returning home from there they naturally wished to play the sport they'd grown up with and no doubt exerted some influence on their less affluent peers as to such.

- Children from low-to-middle income families start school with skills five months behind those of their more affluent peers, research reported in the Independent suggests.

But they have half the access to dental care that their more affluent peers have.

Despite his affluent upbringing, Ahmet began to see a different world than his affluent peers.