As used with respect to poverty, the term double deprivation refers to
A. women and children having twice the poverty rates of men.
B. women suffering because of their gender and women bearing a disproportionate burden of poverty.
C. an intergenerational pattern of poverty in which the risk of poverty doubles with each successive generation.
D. the doubled risk of poverty following release from imprisonment (deprivation of liberty).
Answer: B
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