Effects Of Poverty On Children

Many children in low income homes, tend to score lower on test scores, and have higher drop out rates this may be due to lack of preparation, not having access to early childhood education programs, which means entering kindergarten, they are lacking the basic skills such as lack of vocabulary. Studies have shown, low income children enter school having heard 30 million fewer words than children from middle class families. These children also face poor nutrtion making it harder to concentrate and higher mobility, moving from school to school. Dysfunctional families also plays a role in a childs development, children coming home to stressful households can put a strain on them. (Jeanette DeForge January 08, 2015 http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/01/war_on_poverty_8_challenges_po.html) Child development researcher Seth Pollak of the University of Wisconsin, believes there is a toxin in the environment that is actually altering children’s developmental biology and that is poverty.

Each of the parents has crucial and special responsibility for the educational development of their children but the mushrooming of single parent family has distorted the complementary roles (Krein, 1998). These have led to numerous effects: studies imply that single parent homes are more likely to be low income homes. These children would therefore be subjected to problems associated with this socioeconomic group and even stigma associated with the family structure. There is a strong link between absence of a father figure and truancy behaviour. A single parent will general have minimal time to allocate to each child.

This is because the parent is uncertain about everything so it is impossible to give the child any sense of stability or certainty. If a parent is unable to be there to support or comfort the child this can lead to attachments where both children and parents struggle (Colin 1991). To the parent in poverty, an infant or toddler’s demands can be experienced as yet another source of stress. This research discusses that there might be another factor at play here for parents who are in poverty and their ability to form secure attachments with their children. It may not just be that they are physically unavailable for their child but that they are also emotionally unavailable as

Since their parenting style is so different, it seems that it affects their children in a negative way throughout their childhood, but in the end it makes Jeannette become a better and more successful person. Since the Walls family is so poor and homeless it seems that Rex and Rosemary are not always there to give their children the support and comfort that kids need at a young age. Instead of giving love and comfort, they decide to teach their kids how to be tough and how to learn to do things themselves. Unlike most parents, who focus on supporting, caring for their children first, and then teaching them how to live on their own once they get much older. This attentive parenting method is not visible in the Walls’ family.

Taking away E.P.A., State Department, Agriculture, and Education will mostly affect low and middle income people because they will not have sufficient money to get health care and food for their families. In addition, education is necessary for children to get a degree and a job. As of now, certain schools lack certain commodities; their food is not in good quality, and the arts department has less of a budget compared to higher departments such as math or sports. When students are not educated enough, they tend to get the idea that dropping out of school is the best option. They are wrong; without education people tend to be not well informed about current events.

Immigration should stop deporting immigrant parents because it affects children grades and absences. Children need their parents because they need someone that 's there behind them all the time so they can do there work. By children not having their parents it also affects them by going to

Children in these homes grow up to be accustomed to domestic violence, child abuse, neglect, and out-of-wedlock births. These families are also at an economic disadvantage since they often cannot acquire higher paying jobs, either due to underprivileged public education, or because they must support their family around the house. This creates a cycle of poverty that is often too hard to overcome, so some people result to gangs and crime, in hopes of supporting themselves and their families. Once a person has chosen a life of gangs and crime, they may have to sustain a tough appearance to other gangs and criminals that live within their communities. Since the communities are subjugated by blacks or other people of color, the results are the large percentage of black-on-black crimes.

Child abuse is a serious issue these days and has caused severe effects in lives of children. It can also be because of parent’s negligence towards their children. Neglect is a form of abuse which can be because of low family financial status as because basic necessities of life are missing from child’s life. In such situation, child feels totally neglected or less loved by parents. Neglect occurs when parents show no affection and have bad relations with their kids.

Ragab (2010)Also, working children cannot find a compensation land between work and education. So, children divert from educational to the career life. On the other hand, some children tend to work to afford money for schools because their parents cannot afford

Previously mentioned, families lack the money to offer their children an education. As a result, children will resort to hazardous and unhealthy conditions. These include child labor and other jobs that violate Tanzanian law. As a result of throwaway culture, children attempt to provide for their struggling families, which often causes even more severe problems. However, children and families have not been the only victims of social pressure.

One can assume that when a child is raised in poverty they often do not have access to food and proper clothing these items can make it hard for children to focus in school. Lack of focus in school will lead to a lack of success, which contributes to the lack of poverty, and it becomes an ongoing cycle. In a research done by John Hopkins it was concluded that “They found that a child 's fate is in many ways fixed at birth — determined by family strength and the parents ' financial status.The kids who got a better start — because their parents were married and working — ended up better off. Most of the poor kids from single-parent families stayed poor.”

When children and youths cannot trust their caregivers for reassurance, they have no where to turn but the public. Unfortunately, too often we as a nation also let them down. When they feel there is no where to turn, they shut down and isolate themselves. Not only does the distrust impact treatment, youths in foster care will continue to face substantial adversities upon aging out that may reinforce the idea that there is not safety and security in the world. Social Worker’s Role The primary role and responsibility of the clinical social worker in the group is the development and maintenance of a healthy functioning group.

These youth are more likely to be homeless than anyone else is. Personally, that makes me sick. I do not understand how their parents could no longer want them in their house for something as trivial as sexual orientation. These kids are not in control of how they feel, and yet everyday children are kicked out of their house, because of something that is out of their control. I believe that Barbara is safe now because of Berg.

I agree with the author 's assertion that violence and crime is connected to mainly family and education. Many families, particularly low income families, need to work in order to feed their family, as a result, they leave their child home alone, or pick them up late from school. Ultimately, the child will feel neglected, and the relationship they have with their parents will fade away. On the other hand, if the child is living in a abusive or violent household it can have a huge psychological impact on the child. In the article titled "Youth Violence: Do Parents and Families Make a Difference?"

The high percentage of economically disadvantaged students correlates with EISD’s low scores because it can be assumed that high school students below the poverty line must have some form of work or job after school, preventing them from being able to complete homework and study on a daily basis. This also inhibits their success on standardized tests and college readiness simply because they might not have the time to practice concepts or ask questions to understand testing material. Another key issue with economically disadvantaged students is the lack of parental support and guidance on the significance of studying at home. Many of the parents of economically disadvantaged kids did not obtain a higher level of education, which may impact their ability to help their kids, and worse, their ability to pass on the motivation needed for their kids to succeed in school. In addition, they could also be