The third article is by Murali (2004). This article looks into poverty at a deeper level and explores how it directly and indirectly affects mental health. It looks at it in the context of the growing inequality between the classes. This article mainly focuses on the children and how their social class shapes their mental health. It is important to look at how it affects children, because the children as they grow can either accept it or work hard to change it. It is hard to see upward mobility from the parents class. It is possible but usually there is only a one-class change. Focusing on how class affect children can help create treatments to help the child better coup with life as an adult. It also looks into how they plan to reduce inequality both nationally and internationally (Murali, 2004). This is important to look at because it can help explain the differences in mental health between the social classes. The fourth article I found is by Artazcoz, Benach, Borrell, & Cortès (2004). This article looks at the interactions among genders, family roles, and social class. This article helps explain the common findings of how the lower class has more mental health problems. It explains how unemployment affects the families’ mental health. It also explains why which is needed for comparison to the upper classes’ stresses (Artazcoz, Benach, Borrell, & Cortès, 2004). This article is important because it explains how unemployment changes your family dynamic and can change your
Many children live in poverty around the world, the effects on these developing minds of these children can hurt their development to adulthood. Kids in poverty tend to have lower education than other families that are richer. Their health is also effected from poverty, their life expectancy is 8 years lower from richer families. The communities they grow up can affect them in making choices, choosing money over education. In this paper, i’ll explain the effects of poverty on children’s education, health, and communities.
Some scholars believe that the negative impact poverty has on health of children is the reason for, continuing physical pressure and persistent childhood hunger can a result for a child to have a challenge in education and eventually lead a child to be less successful in the school. A 2016 research presented the idea that the childhood poverty reduces one’s life outlook within adulthood. Definitely, in most cases, it happened even without the family’s living situation or income. While related to their financially- stable equals, poor children in the United States of America are more suitable to present diminished well -being as well as numerous development issue (Arrighi and Maume 138). These facts were revealed by checking different areas, involving physical well-being, cognitive issues, school performance consequences, psychological and behavioral consequences. Therefore, the child poverty places
Many times, poverty makes one uncappable of being able to dress nice for an interview or one knowing how to properly present themselves which leads to being unable to acquire a job. Hunger is a common consequence of poverty because those in it cannot afford to go buy groceries or go to a restaurant. Hunger leads to starvation which ultimately leads to death. Also, those living in poverty acquire diseases or sickness more often because of their lack of resources to receive good sanitation and health care. When these acquire those diseases, they cannot go to the doctor because they cannot afford it which leads to many deaths from a lack of receiving health care. Many in poverty end up living on the streets because they cannot afford a place to live and often turn to drugs and selling because that is what is often seen on the streets. The book states, “The principle is simple: As you go up the social-class ladder, health improves. As you go down the ladder, health worsens.” and “People in the lower classes are more likely to smoke, eat a lot of fats, be overweight, abuse drugs and alcohol, get little exercise, and practice unsafe sex.” (217). Mental health and physical health are tremendously affected by social class and poverty. Poverty is more than just the lack of money; it is a way of life that needs to be brought to a halt in
When analyzing children growing up in poverty a lot of factors come into play such as their physical, psychological and emotional development. To grow up in poverty can have long term effect on a child. What should be emphasized in analyzing the effects of poverty on children is how it has caused many children around the world to suffer from physical disorders, malnutrition, and even diminishes their capacities to function in society. Poverty has played a major role in the functioning of families and the level of social and emotional competency that children are able to reach. Children in poverty stricken families are exposed to greater and emotional risks and stress level factors. They are even capable of understanding and dealing with
It can be argued that an individual’s economic status is one of the most important aspects of a person’s place in society, almost more than race, gender, or religion. Poverty can be defined as a state of being extremely poor. In the United States and many other areas throughout the world there are many individuals who lack enough money to provide the basic necessities of life. Poverty is a chronic condition and so many children who grow up in it will face the effects over their lifetime. I see the main effects of growing up in poverty being poor health, a high risk for teen pregnancy, and the lack of education.
The reason I selected this article is because poverty is currently happening and only increasing. Children are the future; we need to acknowledge this and work towards helping them flourish. Over all we have learned that growing up in a substandard household causes more depression, anxiety and more health problems for children in the
Strength of this chapter is the author took into consideration that there is not one specific way to improve equality. The authors explained how different countries and even states in the U.S.A are all different and they would have to design policies to help them in their effects to decrease inequality. Also another key concept that the chapter makes is simply thinking the poor need to be more practical. A lot of people think the poor should stop having unprotected sex, using drugs, and take better care of their children (). This is an attitude that a lot of people have with the poor and they do not see how inequality is the root to their problem. When a person feels like the world is against them they tended to be more violent, which explains the high level of violence in inequality countries, and depress and stress with leads to high level of
According to PBS (2004), the significance of social and emotional development is seen in every area of the child’s life. Poverty can bring low expectations for the child, in the sense of experiences, positivity, and emotional regulation. The Prevalence of diagnosed depression and anxiety in children, is higher in children affected by poverty between 2 & 9 years of age (NCCP, 2016). It is the goal of this paper to analyze how poverty affects school age children’s socioemotional development, in particular their internalizing and externalizing behavior. Poverty in school-age children causes significant consequences on children’s socioemotional development, as studies have linked it to depression, anxiety, stress, academic achievement, problematic peer relations, and disruptive classroom behaviors (Dornfeld & Kruttschnitt, 1992; Duncan, Brooks-Gunn, & Klebanov, 1994; Hanson, Mclanahan, & Thomson, 1997; Patterson, Kupersmidt, & Vaden,
There is some evidence that income has direct and indirect relationships with mental health. Humphries & van Doorslaer (2000) found that there is no direct relationship between income and mental health. They found some confounding factors that could affect the mental health. Other researchers Akhtar – Danesh and Landeen (2007), and Leray et al., (2011) found there is direct relationship of income and mental health. Therefore, in this section we will discuss factors that have direct and indirect relationship with mental health such as living necessities, income and policy. As well what effects they have on mental health of low income adults.
Poverty is defined as “acting through economic stressors such as unemployment and lack of affordable housing” (Kuruvilla and Jacob, 2007, p 273). Poverty is associated with a wide range of mental health disorders. Mental illness “refers to conditions that affect cognition, emotion, and behavior (eg, schizophrenia, depression, autism)” (Manderscheid et al, 2010). Low socio-economic status (SES) increases higher risk for a person’s health. SES “is an aggregate concept comprising resource-based (i.e., material and social resources) and prestige-based (individual’s rank or status) indicators of socioeconomic position, which can be measured across societal levels (individual, household, and neighborhood)” (Tippett and Wolke, 2014).
As we know the crippling effects of poverty amongst society can seriously affect mental and physical health. But how can poverty really cause mental illness? It's a complex question that is fairly new to science. Despite high rates of both poverty and mental disorders around the world, researchers only started probing the possible links about 25 years ago. Since then, evidence has piled up to make the case that, at the very least, there is a connection. People who live in poverty appear to be at higher risk for mental illnesses. They also report lower levels of happiness.
Poverty also can contribute to the poor and mental health of many impoverished children. These children lack the rights to proper healthcare and are not provided with the required care and treatment to be physically well. A deprivation of resources and proper parenting causes children in poverty to feel discouraged, thus, inhibiting their academic growth.
As mentioned before, people who are in poverty are generally more likely to suffer from various psychological conditions (Effects of Poverty). Including but not limited to, depression, anxiety, chronic stress, ADHD, violence, and a plethora of other mental health disorders (Effects of Poverty). People in poverty are more prone to emotional problems as well (Brooks-Gunn and Duncan 58). Poor parents are generally more susceptible to stress and other emotional problems (Brooks-Gunn and Duncan 58). Chronic stress affecting parents goes into their behavior towards their children, often resulting in poor outcomes for the both groups (Brooks-Gunn and Duncan 58). Crime and violence seen in impoverished areas negatively affects people inside them, leading to psychological disorders (Effects of Poverty). Poverty has numerous negative effects on the mental health of people in
relation between poverty and mental health has been made possible in recent years by growing trends in psychological studies. This paper analyzes the research pertaining to the relationship between a society's mental health and the economy, specifically in the United States. This paper does, however also go more in depth, taking in factors such as gender and ethnicity. The circle between poverty is a brutal cycle that can be alleviated in economics ways. Through reading, an understanding of the conflicts surrounding the American society are shown.
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.