Families moved from rural areas to the newly industrialized cities to find work. Once there, things were not as great as they dreamed they would be. In order to survive, families had to have everyone in the household working. This led to the epidemic of child labor with children, as young as six years old, working in harsh conditions for long hours in factories or coal mines (Dunlop, 1912). Young children could be hired to do the same jobs as adults for much less pay and could often fit into places adults couldn't.
sewing clothes, etc. This puts a lot of pressure on women who may not be prepared for the harsh conditions in the industrial factories. Addams saw that in these situations children also have to work even at a prematurely very young age and give their earnings to the parents to help with family finances. This stunts the children’s chances for individual development and usefulness and leads to exploitation of the children. Aside from the prevalence of child labor, Addams also observed many other social situations that are not ideal – early marriages and/or juvenile delinquency among the young, adverse housing conditions for financially-strapped families and its impact on public health,
When you’re a young adult, you mainly have time for school, work and your friends. If you have a baby you really can’t hang out with your friends as much. Also you won’t have time to go to school, which if you don’t get a degree than you can’t get a good job to support that baby. The only thing you can do is work. You
The lack of education leads to further development of barriers such as a financial barrier and poor lifestyle that makes them unable to provide for themselves and their child. Most jobs that do not require a high school diploma only offer a minimum wage and do not offer adequate benefits to meet all medical needs. “key indicators of health, infant mortality rates and low-birth weight rates, were elevated when infants were born to mothers who were less educated” (Flores et al,1998). Considering that statement I believe that the biggest barrier affecting this vulnerable population’s health is education. Vulnerable mothers that do not finish getting their education become discouraged and loose the motivation and drive to tackle the oncoming challenges that life brings, creating for them another barrier on the micro level; it being a financial barrier.
Poverty has been a very great hindrance to education in many developing countries. In some countries children have to go to work before attending school so as to get money for tuition and other requirements. Due to poverty children have to wake up early before sunrise and walk
Studies show that, low income home energy assistance program benefits seem to reach families at the highest social and medical risk with more food insecurities have higher rates of low birth weight children (Frank, 2006). The reason behind this is that the money for food is spent on the electric bill when no assistance is provided. In result many children are born with a low birth weight and some even experience a life line of hospital visits. Some children even have a hard time focusing in school because of the lack of energy. Children are blocked from living a somewhat normal life all because the household could not get the financial assistance needed in order to help with their electricity
Welfare Reforms The dream of most women is to have the traditional family, which includes a husband and their children. There are more single mothers in this day and age that face more challenges on the way to achieving the American Dream. They find it hard to provide financially even working a full-time job because the pay is normally minimum wage and most still rely on public assistance to make ends meet. Some single mothers lack education and work experience, which prevents them from obtaining a decent paying job. Budget cuts to welfare programs are making it that much harder for the single mother to provide the necessities for their children because these supplemental programs are necessary to the day to day workings of a family.
Perhaps anyone can achieve anything they set their minds to ,but social class and how they are brought up affects them so much from such an early age. Their lives are much harder. So it is very difficult for them to fight with the social class system. People from lower social classes tend to struggle academically. Some of the reasons would be: - Lack of exposure - in early childhood, many low-income students can't afford to buy as much books as the amount of books in middle-class students' homes; - In homes where education is not a priority, the standards for
Issues Impacting Physical Education Julie Gray PED 212 Instructor William Swisher October 31, 2011 Issues Impacting Physical Education Children in today’s society are being robbed of their future, simply because of their environment both at home and at school. Due to the economic situation we’ve encountered over the past few years, more parents are required to work; some work more days and some work more hours, some do both. The ones that suffer the most are the children. They are forced to be less active which in turn causes them to be less healthy and more obese both of which can directly affect academic performance. It is vital that parents and educators get involved and work together in helping students to become more physically active and on the right path to becoming and staying healthy.
In today’s economic workforce, many workers who lack a quality education are suffering. Unfortunately, millions of people struggle to survive and provide for their families because they are stuck in a low paying job position because they do not have the proper education or learned skills to advance in the workforce. If there was a potential solution to this problem, why would anyone not try to seek it? The solution starts with preschool. Depending on the preschool program, one can potentially be more successful and prepared for higher education, thus leading to a more sophisticated career.