They face foreclosures and job losses due to the deepening recession. The impact of homelessness begins well before a child is born. The overwhelming majority of homeless parents are single women, many of whom were homeless themselves as children. Homeless women face many obstacles to healthy pregnancies, such as chemical abuse, chronic and acute health problems, and lack of prenatal care. Children born into homelessness are more likely to have low birth weights and are at greater risk of death.
Single parents have a lack of funds to support their children’s needs. There is a certain amount of social stigma pointed towards children living in poverty, and it’s these children, who, not only have to deal with that stigma and embarrassment, but, also they are dealing with the dramatic health consequences as well. There are a number of strategies in place to end child poverty. Improving social mobility and promoting work are high on the agenda, along with services to help promote the most vulnerable and hopefully, this in turn, will eradicate child poverty for good. There are a number of causes to child poverty in the UK.
These statistics point to a betrayal of Canada's children. REASON To use the most basic terms, the cause of poverty in a developed country like Canada is a lack of sufficient income and resources to live a full life. (1) However, behind this simple definition lies a more difficult question: Why do some individuals and families not have the resources necessary to break out of poverty? Responses to this question vary widely, reflecting different ideologies and perspectives. Some people view poverty as the outcome of personal decisions or choices, such as dropping out of school, having a child at an early age, using and becoming addicted to drugs and/or alcohol,
Many of those children are not provided with necessity nutrition for healthy development. (National Center for Children in Poverty, 2010) Many of these children also lack health insurance and residential stability. Infants and toddlers are the most effected victims of poverty. They are most likely to suffer from starvation and death due to health issues resulting from lack of nutrition and medical help. Infants because of their dependence and need of care suffer from being left alone or with insufficient caregivers.
The Separation of Children from Dignity by Poverty The minds of children are so very sensitive to everything that they encounter. The rest of a child’s life may be affected by what most adults may consider insignificant events and happenings in their own lives. Imagine what damage could be done by large-scale issues like poverty and homelessness. As author Melanie Scheller explains, “Poor white trash were viciously stereotyped, and never more viciously than on the playground… don’t get near them or you might catch [ringworm and pink-eye]” (356). How is a child to learn the meaning of having friends or of dignity growing up this way?
Also the literacy rates are low, Haiti needs help until the government is able sustain the people in this country. To begin, Haiti has a very low annual income compared to other countries in the world. The Gross Domestic Product in Haiti in 2013 is $8.459 billion dollars. This should have ranged from $30,000 to $17 trillion. Also the country is very over crowded, in 2013 the population recorded 10.32 million people.
Apart from the main direct cause like unemployment, poverty in our society today is the low paid, lone parents and children. However poverty can have a great impact on a child’s life. The people as well as the children who are poor could suffer greatly from problems such as social exclusion, employment, education, mental and physical health and social interaction. This is one fact why child poverty is a direct result of adult poverty, however unlike an adult, experiencing poverty as a child can have lifelong consequences in the future lifespan if they are not helped early age. Poverty is measured in two ways, namely absolute and relative poverty.
The author of this paper found that a great deal of rural poverty is caused by the lack of opportunities that are available in urban areas. Poverty in America’s Rural Communities According to Fisher (2007), “poverty rates have long been higher in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan areas” (p.56). Lichter & Johnson (2007) came to same general consensus in stating that the concentration of poverty has been historically higher in rural areas. Individuals who reside in nonmetropolitan areas have higher odds of being poor than their metropolitan counterparts. Persistently poor counties, or counties with poverty rates of 20 percent or more in each decennial census, have been mostly nonmetropolitan areas.
Diseases that are easily treatable here in the United States are basically death sentences to the poor people of Afghanistan. About 48,545 children die each year in Afghanistan due to diarrheal diseases alone (TOLOnews). That is about eighty percent of the children who die from unsafe water. These kids died from ingesting water, which is a very troubling sentence to type. The families are left with choice of using this dirty water or not use any water at all.
It has been said that poverty results to powerlessness and inequality. Although absolute equality in the society is impossible to achieve, especially considering the fact that a society must not try to distribute all of its resources equally (Levitan, 1990), the prevalence of poverty has caused numerous problems. It has been said that extreme poverty is very common as it afflicts as much as 23 percent of the total population of the world. There are citizens living in the regions of East Asia, Africa, and South America who experience extreme income poverty, or those who earn USD 1 a day or less. Absolute poverty on the other hand has been said to prevail in Sub-Saharan African region with 300 million of people suffering from it.