Merry Christmas, Kids.

More than 80,000 children in Britain will spend their Christmas living in temporary accommodations, the homeless charity Shelter has warned.

“Parents and children sharing beds, children forced to eat on the floor and being threatened with violence in the place they live: this shouldn't be happening in the 21st century Britain,” said Campbell Robb, chief executive of the charity.

The Children’s Society charity revealed that more than half of British children in poverty are living in cold, damp homes.  According to the study, 76 percent of British children are "often worried" about how much money the family had.

 In 2011-12, 2.3 million or 17 percent of UK children were recorded as “living in homes with substantially lower than average income.”  The new figure, however, rises to 3.5 million or 27 percent when housing costs are deducted from incomes.