One of the major negative effects of poverty to children is that they tend to dropout from school. Student dropouts lead to child labor because most of the children need to work in order to survive and help their families. Here in our country, there are kids who spends hours collecting trash in the dumpsites which they sell to junkshops. There are also indigent children who tend to steal things and money just for the sake of surviving. For the past years, there are many cases where children, at an early age steal things from other people.
They will also lack people to confide in or go to for advice Child neglect, often overlooked, is the most common form of child maltreatment. This has a major impact on a child’s development. Most perpetrators of child neglect are the parents themselves. The physical, emotional and cognitive developmental impacts from child neglect in any childhood can be detrimental as the effects from neglect can carry on into adulthood. By the time a child reaches the age of six if he / she has experienced neglect his/her chances of having overall poor physical health increases .Infants can develop poor physical health if neglect starts even before the child I born.
A Childs home can have an effect on their physical and mental health, making them more vulnerable to illness or disability due to poor diet or quality of food. Children can become a target for bullying as a result to poor hygiene or clothing and will make them feel they are not good enough. 1.2 Explain the importance and impact of poverty on outcomes and life changes for children and young people. Poverty is one of the five every child matters outcomes, is for families to achieve economic well- being. Poverty can impact on a Children’s life chances and outcomes.
In the article “Just whom is this Divorce good for? By Marquart she explains, “We found that children of so- called “good” divorces often do worse even than children of unhappy low- conflict marriages. They say more often, that family life was stressful and they had to grow up to soon. They are themselves more likely to divorce and children of divorce feel like divided selves”. I would have to agree with that because I am actually going through my parents getting a divorce and when I found out I didn’t want to believe it at all I didn’t want to see my parents split up it just wasn’t right to me.
Material depravation is the lack of money and resources in the home. Sociologists who are ‘material depravation sociologists’ believe that the main cause of underachievement is lack of money and resources due to poverty. Overcrowding can lead to children not being able to study/ do homework, there may also be disturbed sleep, also, in a crowded household, children have a higher risk of accident. Families living in temporary housing will also be worse off as it means the child may have disrupted education. Howard (2001) noted that young people from poorer homes have lower intakes of energy, vitamins, and minerals.
Children cannot raise themselves. Without families, the odds are against them growing into productive citizens and the loss to society is devastating. Many children without parents don’t finish high school, they end up homeless and in our prisions. They are prime candidates for trafficking, prostitution, terrorists and becoming child soldiers. The loss of human potential is incalculable.
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
Difficulty concentrating, difficulty learning, depression, low self-esteem, Child is always hungry and very thin and poor health is signs of child neglect. If a child is not willing to participate in physical activities, poor peer relationships, focused on sexual relationships and pain in certain areas are signs of sexual abuse. We need to learn the signs of child abuse because children everywhere are dying because of child abuse. If we learn the signs of child abuse, we will be able to prevent it. You may be able to take a class that teaches you about the signs of child abuse and just child abuse in general.
Injustice is mostly endured by the powerless class of society. Throughout the texts studied, Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens and Slum dog Millionaire by Danny Boyle, injustice is perceived as neglect, poverty, and abuse. Dickens states his views on the flaws of society, as orphans and children living in poverty are more vulnerable to being easy victims of abuse within their life at some point. An ongoing occurrence of a variety of techniques, allows the reader/audience to really become a part of what is happening and to feel it for themselves. Oliver Twist is a young orphan who is starts off in Mrs Mann’s workhouse, the children are tortured by slow starvation and Oliver is drawn the short straw to ask for more.
Causes and effects of Poverty A starting point for causing poverty can be as simple as early age pregnancies. It is always said ‘Teenage pregnancy generally leads to being in poverty for the majority of your life’, but why is this? Having a baby in your teen years can create unnecessary stress, this could lead to being distracted from school work or even worse, dropping out of school all together. This would leave you with no real qualifications and in the current economic situation the chances are that you will become one of growing number of unemployed young adults. At this point, money will most likely become the main objective.