• Children that grow up in bad housing face a number of other disadvantages, including negative impacts on their health, education and social interactions. • Having a family bread winner does not guarantee that a child stays out of persistent poverty,7% of couples with one parent in work experience persistent poverty. • The causes of poverty may have been misunderstood by the general public. This study shows
Also, the father of the child may not stick around because he too is scared of the responsibility of raising a child, and his whole life is going to change if he decides to stay around. So the pregnant teen ends up becoming a single mother. According to Hanna B., approximately 10% of all births occur to teenage mothers worldwide. This “phenomenon” is of concern because teenage mothers are reported to be “disadvantaged financially, educationally, and cognitively” in both the short and long term span. Many teenage mothers find strength in their motherhood role but this does not come without cost to themselves or their children, as many teenagers are considered unsuitable to be parents and do not have the right support.
The good news is that low birth weight is preventable. The bad news is that there is no simple solution to positively impact the myriad of interactive factors which result in a low birth weight baby. What differences exist between white Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and immigrants that would affect the health of expecting mother and their children? According to the March of Dimes, four factors that tend to result in low birth weight include low income, lack of education, African American race, and being younger than 17 or older than 35 (March of Dimes, 2014). Imagine being fifteen, pregnant, dysfunctional or no family or male support, you smoke and/ or drink as a means of coping, low income, high school dropout, and probable history of abuse.
Local clinics and health facilities could set up programs that address teenage pregnancy. Local clinics focusing on primary prevention techniques could prevent undesirable outcomes in the future or help promote more desirable outcomes (Gladding, & Newsome, 2003). Primary prevention is done to reduce the risk factors for undesirable outcomes. There are many indirect services that aide in prevention. A collaboration between parents, school and community agencies can greatly reduce the number of teenage mothers.
JeBari Lewis May 30, 2015 The children featured in Waiting for Superman are the epitome of the issues that plague their communities negatively affecting their education. Personal issues and a flawed education system go hand in hand. Personal issues that each of the featured children faced was crippling poverty. Their situation was made more dire by the fact they were surrounded by uneducated people who had often resulted to crime as a means to elevate their position in life or drugs to escape the reality of their position in life. Their impoverished communities resulted in less taxpayer dollars to fund the school which in educating the students would be able to provide the children with a chance at succeeding and eventually funneling
Outline and evaluate the research into privation. Privation is the term given to the inability to form attachments as a result of complete lack of emotional care, especially during the first few years of a child’s life. This can happen for many different reasons, a child may be neglected by parents who do not love them (example being a mother suffering from post natal depression who finds it hard to form a bond with her child, and may give it what it needs to survive with regards to feeding and cleaning, but disregard it’s emotional needs such as holding and comforting the child when upset). It could happen if a child is completely abandoned at birth, is abused by the parents or if a child behaves undesirably (ie, excessive crying with no way of comforting it) the mother or carer (in cases of adopted children) may find it so hard to cope that they have the child put into care. This could lead to a child being repeatedly moved from family to family, preventing it from forming an attachment to one specific carer.
More often parents who do not have the support tend to lose control easier and start making poor choices that lead to neglect. A health care educator can assist the community in reducing the rate of child neglect through a Child Neglect Prevention Program. The program could be tailored to support specific groups within the neighborhood, since a single teen mother has different concerns than a married couple supporting six children. The most
Peyton Kettleband Ms. Phillips American Literature 25 October 2014 Postmodernist characteristics of I.D. Depression is a huge issue in society, making it hard for others to communicate. Joyce Carol Oates’ story “I.D.” showcases the strain depression puts on communication through Lisette’s day-to-day life. This example of postmodernist literature sends the message that communication is key for a strong family relationship, otherwise is leads to isolation, lack of heroes, and detachment. The concern with an individual in isolation shows that Lisette is isolated and doesn’t communicate effectively.
Reflection Paper BSHS/345 Week 3 Reflective Paper Kathleen Parks Dr. Princess Clarke August 8, 2014 All the people in our country and across the world face many kinds of difficulties starting from trauma, challenges for migrant and seasonal workers, women aging to overcoming poverty. The incomes and expenditure for no one persons are the same. The poverty passed down from generation to generation is stated as generational poverty. It is a forever-going cycle passed down from parents to children, to the children to the grandchildren and so on. The government’s offered solutions can help get over the generational poverty problems, however the system’s are broken and provide little to no relief to the immediate issue of putting society
Lack of money and a stable home creates a problem. Many women fleeing an abusive relationship were dependent financially on their abuser. Here is one example of why women are having difficulties moving on, as it says in the article American Journal of Community Psychology: “Domestic violence is intricately linked to the issue of women's poverty. Abusers may forbid their partners from working or going to school, or sabotage their efforts