How Poverty Affected Families

When speaking in the context of poverty, money is the primary aspect. Being poor means that there is not a lot of money available for the family. Thus the money that the family does have, needs to be spent appropriately through a budget. That budget includes bills, house, food, gas, and entertainment. Most of the money is spent paying bills to keep the house livable. After that, many families do not have much money to purchase food, gas, or entertainment. Food is a necessity to live and the gas is the way they go to work. Meaning sometimes a family will skip a meal or not have any form of entertainment. The primary concern for families is not being evicted from their

Everyone knows what the word poverty means. It means poor, unable to buy the necessities to survive in today's world. We do not realize how easy it is for a person to fall into poverty: A lost job, a sudden illness, a death in the family or the endless cycle of being born into poverty and not knowing how to overcome it. There are so many children in poverty and a family's structure can effect the outcome. Most of the people who are at the poverty level need some type of help to overcome the obstacles. There are mane issues that deal with poverty and many things that can be done to stop it.

Poverty - A child may be living in a household with a very low income and their family may not be able to afford to provide for their children as they ad hoped. They may struggle to buy enough food, especially health food, to eat, buy clothes to wear or even to provide heating and electric. This can affect their physical and mental health due to poor hygiene and diet. Some children may suffer with low self-esteem and low self-respect because of the stigma attached to poverty, this can affect them in later life also.

Generational poverty has different hidden rules, and beliefs than situational poverty. Generational poverty usually has violence, instability, uneducated adults, addiction, incarceration, death, and lack of space in a household. In generational poverty people don’t usually know how to manage money because they have never had much or any. Family is very important to people in poverty and the patterns are usually hard to understand for people outside of

Poverty is not a topic to be pushed to the side for later conversation. It is evident in the streets and in cities and countries, whether it is liked or not. Many children grow up not knowing the joys of having whatever they want, whenever they want it, and do not have some necessities in life such as correct school supplies or decent clothing. Kids have to choose how they are going to deal with their situation: some are kind and hard workers who try their best in everything they do while the others play around, are not hard working, have no manners or etiquette, and do not care about their appearance. Walter Cunningham and Burris Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, born into poverty, have different views and actions because of their upbringing and the environment they are born into. Both

How Poverty Affects Society Since the beginning of modern civilization, poverty has played a big role in this day in age. Poverty is spread worldwide, but differs with country to country. It can also be seen more in certain cultures than others or whether a single mother is working multiple jobs to support her family and barely makes enough to make ends meet in the household. People born in a poor neighborhood may feel discouraged to become rich one day because all their lives they have seen poverty and find it almost impossible to run away from it. Today poverty is still a social and economical problem that affects the way people live.

Poverty effects each ethnicity, and gender differently, African Americans typically live in the greatest poverty, followed by Hispanics, Non-Hispanic Whites, and Asians. It can be found largely in the homeless, immigrants, children and the elderly, and in concentrated urban areas like Dallas, New York and Los Angeles. Poverty can be caused by situations like accidents that leave an adult unable to work, those working low wage jobs. It can also be cause by poor money management like when my family lived in poverty. In 2008 my grandparents passed away, my father took the money we inherited and moved us to Washington, he ended up giving away all of our money to a man who ran away with it. Thankfully our house in Missouri had not sold yet so we were able to move back into it. My parents struggled to find jobs again, and for almost a year we lived off of the donations given to us by

In the web comic on poverty shows that the points about poverty is the type of family that you are born in, which has a big effect on your life in the future. People who consider themselves to be rich are on the top level, in the comic Richard was born in a rich family “Then maybe Richard starts to believe that he deserves to be on to. That he did it all himself.” However, poor life have a lot of difficulties more than what the rich people have as this quotation shows “Paula’s house is fall of people and not much else. It’s damp and noisy and she keeps getting sick.” Lastly, whether you're born in rich or poor family, you will still need to face the responsibilities and the challenges to over up the level you are in.

Within this course, there were issues or information from the course that most surprised, intrigued, or elicited emotion (positive or negative) in me. There were many topics that I already knew about but needed to refresh my memory and many that were new information to me.

Introduction Families in Australia are diverse like many other countries around the world. There are families from different socioeconomic backgrounds, races, origins, ages, sexual orientation, sizes, composition, health conditions, and just about everything else (Family Matters, 2006; Lee, K & Lee, J, 2016). According to Qu and Ruth (2013), a report conducted in 2011 found that there were about 22.3 million people residing in Australia at that time. Per the report, Australian households consisted of 72% family households with 37% of these households consisted of couples with dependent children, 11% were single parent households with dependent children, and 12% of these households were same-sex couples with dependent children (Qu & Ruth, 2013). Australian families were reported as: valuing independence, compliance, reaching developmental milestones early in verbal skills and social skills, and emotional control in their children (Rogoff, 2003; Winskel, Salehuddin, & Stanbury (2013).

Three billion people around the world are living in poverty and the MoneySmart family could join them. Facing a medical emergency, one of the MoneySmart parents are unable to work. To help the MoneySmart family, I came up with ways the family can adjust spending, how their kids could help, and how families everywhere can prepare better for similar situations.

Living in poverty does not make you a bad person or any less however there are factors that affect these families much more drastically then most. Living in lower income neighborhood often doesn 't offer as much security and children are

Poverty is defined as “the state of being extremely poor.” (Oxford 699) In 2014, “21.1 percent of children under age 18 (15.5 million) in the United States lived in poverty. This group of children represent 23.3 percent of the total population and 33.3 percent of people in poverty. (DE-Navas 14) This group contributes to “generational poverty” which is not as clearly defined. There is not much distinction made between “temporary poverty”, “situational poverty” and “generational poverty”. This can contribute to a lack of understanding of the realities experienced. Generational poverty is largely accepted to be the term used for families who have lived in poverty for two or more generations, where children of parents in poverty grow up to live in poverty themselves. Education is consistently an issue in this population where it can be common to not have any family member that has been educated beyond middle school years. Not only is this a unique group in society, they have very distinct stressors that

Personally, in a way poverty is an unavoidable and inescapable reality that strikes when we least expect it but one way or another we all deal with some form of poverty in our lives at one some point no matter how insignificant or profound. There was a point in my life when my Dad was working as a contractor for Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Colorado for a couple years leading up to the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Shortly after the Towers came down in what we can call the worst terrorist attacks to ever occur in the Western hemisphere or United States the economy suffered a heavy blow and to some extent has still not recovered, however Coors elected not to renew my Dads contract a year after the attack so he was out of a job and regrettable we had to sell our home and eventually settled with renting because we could not afford to buy another home at that point.

Poverty can lead to serious effects. Children who grow up in poverty are likely to have frequent health problems than the children who grow in better financial circumstances. For example, infants who are born into poverty have a low birth weight, and they grow up with mental or physical disabilities. Not only are they sick, but they are most likely to die before their first birthday. Children who are raised in poverty might miss school often because of their illnesses, and they have a much higher accident rate than the other children. Nearly a billion of the world’s population can’t read nor write. Poor families experience stress much more than a normal family does. They are more likely to be exposed to negative events such as illness, job loss, death of a family member, and depression. Homelessness is another effect of poverty. Homeless children are less likely to receive proper nutrition, protection and they experience more health problems. Around 1.4 million children die each year from lack of access to safe and clean water and proper nutrition. Homeless women experience a high rate of low birth weight infants as well as miscarriages. Families who do not have homes receive much more stress than other families. They also have disruption in school, work, friendships, and family relationships. There are other effects of poverty such as drug abuse and addiction, child and woman abuse, debts pressure, and increase in crimes.