(Barnardos, 2013). There are a number of indications as to why child poverty exists, unemployment plays a big part. Unemployment is an indicator of educational disadvantage, which in turn, affects the rest of a child’s life. Lone parent families are also an indication as to why child poverty is on the rise. Single parents have a lack of funds to support their children’s needs.
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.
While 58% of families below the UK poverty line contained at least one working parent, benefits available still do not bring them above the 60% median household income. [4,7] Along with income inequality other inequalities such as: ethnicity, housing and the neighborhood in which the child lives; all contribute to poverty. People from ethnic minority groups in Britain are significantly more likely to be living in poverty. Around a third of all children are living in poverty; but disadvantage is deeper among children in ethnic minority groups as a whole. Homelessness; poor accommodation such as overcrowding, poor state of repair blights childhood.
However, I disagree that this English poverty is worse than the Third World poverty because the poor in England have a chance to live well, but in India the poor have no chance to live well, and there are many people in Third World countries who are also spiritually poor like England, so that means this English poverty is not the worst. First, the poverty in England is not economic, but moral and cultural because the English poor do not have good family relations and strong family ties. One of the important elements to be moral is to have good family relations. If a person has strong family ties, he or she will take care of much more things about life because this person will build his or her life on family members, their benefits and their goodness, so that will lead to a person to
With inflation comes rising cost and lower income families’ resulting in higher numbers of welfare recipients. In the United States the income distribution arrangement is extremely unusual from that of a third world nation, whereas, a small number of families may be very affluent while a majority of families are very deprived. Most distressing is the modification in income distribution. In our society, the underprivileged do not profit from the increased prosperity of our country. Low income families and high income families consist of an extensive income difference.
Homeless people are poor people. They are similar to us, but they no longer have work, no a place to call a home and no future for themselves and for their children. Defining the homelessness is somewhat difficult. The article “Who is Homeless in America?” defines: “Homelessness is attributable to a dwindling supply of affordable housing, an increasing number of people living below the poverty line”. (qtd.
e Maria Magaña Sally R. Cooperman English 3003 Essay #1 8 October 2012 The Roots of Social Inequality Have you ever asked yourself why there are so many people suffering from poverty in the U.S? What causes it? Could it be because these people are too idle and unmotivated to make an attempt to escape from the imaginary box that has kept them trapped for years in poverty? Maybe it is life’s circumstances that have them being socially unequal. Even though it sounds easy to talk about social Inequality(capitalize why?
There is also a huge discrepancy in the distribution of income as the poorest 40% of the population control less then 12% of the country's personal income. This acts as an injection into the vicious cycle of poverty as limited income means these people and their families are at a disadvantage
It is very easy for us to look at someone who is impoverished and assume that they are to be blamed for their own poverty. That is not always the case. Millions of Americans are living in poverty. Some are ill, some are unemployed, and some people have devoted too much of their time attempting to better society, as opposed to bettering their own life. We live in a very ethnocentric society, meaning that we look down upon those of a different culture and tend to assume the worst of them, (Leeder, In Class 1/16/13).
Among the reasons for this problem is the issue of poverty, a very poor distribution of tax money for education, and some cultural conflicts. All of these problems are worse when the inner cities are examined. Sadly, the black community remains significantly poor, undereducated or uneducated, and unemployed. With our young men left to face these issues, they will begin to have a bleak outlook on education, thus leaving them to figure out how to survive in this society without an education. Research over the past 10 year has shown that the most effective way to reduce crime and recidivism is through education, and mainly literacy training as well as GED training (Henry 2003).