Child Poverty In America

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Poverty in America Poverty has been around for a long time now but hardly anybody has done anything to stop it all around the world. Child poverty is an indicator of the hard times the world is going thru. Families all over the world have the responsibility to guide their children to the right path by providing them with everything they need in order to succeed, but with poverty in their footsteps it’s making it basically impossible for many families in general to do so. Challenged with so many things like economic insecurity and unemployment parents have had to beg for money in the streets so that they could try and support their kids. The Children of this great world are the future but with the consequences that poverty causes every year…show more content…
Most of the crimes done by the poor people are by necessity as a study shows that people who were given the choice of moving into a lower poverty neighborhood didn’t do as much crime as the people who stayed in the higher poverty neighborhood. Other factors that contribute to people committing crimes do to poverty are those who get addicted to drugs to vanish somewhat you can say of the hunger they have but can’t satisfy. Violence is seen in the way of when they decided to rob a store or a house the owners get tired of it and decide to either close down or sale the house. Which makes it even harder for the people that does have money to buy and as a consequence makes the poor people in desperation rebel against the government and start causing disasters in their cities or villages to get the governments attention because they feel they were left down. The world is falling short in its promise and commitment to ensure that every child enjoys a safe and nurturing…show more content…
Children in poverty have not been able to have a normal childhood instead of living in a good neighborhood with a good education and having time to play and enjoy life are being forced to live a places where before it was used to be a dumpster near railroad tracks and have no toys to play with. “At first it was a trash dump, the police often came to remove us. We would rebuild and made sure they didn’t remove us. When we arrive to sector 2 of the tracks, our first shacks weren’t even shacks they were simply made from plastic scraps, they were like toy houses” (ATD study poverty 24). They are forced to live in very crowded places for example some are forced to live in a place where ten people are living in at the same time giving them no privacy to do their necessities. They live in places with no boundaries to separate them from one room to another. The children are faced to live with the risk of catching a deadly infection and non deadly infections due to not having any health insurance. Most children in poverty haven’t seen a doctor in a very long time only when the doctors that volunteer to help children in poverty is when they get the chance to see one. If it wasn’t for that I don’t think they would ever see one in their lives. Furthermore, children in poverty are at “greater risk of injuries resulting from accidents or physical
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