What Is Wrong With Low Income Family

On the other hand, this research emphasizes how one’s family background and the surrounding neighborhood as specific contexts that impact individuals psychologically. In my opinion, higher SES families may live in wealthier communities that have better educational resources and environment. At this point, human development tend to be context specific instead of universal. As what we learned in class, poverty brings negative impacts to children, which is the biggest risk for parenting as well. More specifically, parents/caregivers bring direct influences to their children, and the neighborhood is one of the vital factors that impact children simultaneously. (Cole’s lecture, April & May 2017).

Others have claimed the poor families remain poor over generations because of lack of family values. This lack promotes teen pregnancy, children being raised by welfare, and single moms. Others claims that poor youths especially nonwhites see work, education, and marriage as something they despise. Why do they despise these things? Because they see these as symbols of the middle class social structure.

social class . . . matters most in explaining these [family] differences. It is widely known (and confirmed by U.S. Census data presented in Table 1) that Blacks and Latinos/as tend to have far less income and education than Whites. Families of color are also much more likely than White families to be below the official poverty line. In [their] research, [they] find that the differences in extended family ties and behaviors between Whites and ethnic minorities are primarily the result of these social class disparities (64).

There is also an underlying punishment in the segregation found in education. Schools that black children attend are segregated because they are located in poor neighborhoods. Living in high-poverty neighborhoods for multiple generations adds a barrier to accessing achievement. It is not possible to desegregate schools without desegregating both low-income and high-income neighborhoods. Residential segregation and ongoing poverty have left African Americans in some of the most terrible housing in several of the lowest-resourced communities (Rothstein). Black citizens also suffer from concentrated poverty. About 45 percent of poor black children live in neighborhoods with concentrated poverty. Only 12 percent of poor white children live in concentrated poverty (Algeron). Children in neighborhoods with concentrated poverty experience more social and behavioral problems, have lower test scores, and are more likely to drop out of school. Part of the difference in educational outcomes likely comes from the different environments black and white children live in during their school years. Black children are far more likely to live in households that are low-income, extremely poor, food-insecure, or receiving long-term welfare support (Ford). Black children are less likely than white children are to live in households where at least one parent has secure employment. In addition, black children have the greatest

Poverty in the so-called “land of the free” is downplayed and skewed by the American media conglomerates. These gatekeepers are making life harder for people below the poverty line by masking the true issues that lie beneath it. Therefore they are using their overarching power to make the rich richer and keep the poor poorer, through methods such as instilling fear in the middle class.

Today, despite strong labor markets with record low unemployment rates, there are millions of Americans who work but remain poor. In 2009,.which is the most recent data available, accordint to the Working Poor Families Project (a privately funded effort aimed at improving economic security for low-income families) 10 million low-income working families in the United States an increase of nearly a quarter million from the previous year. Forty-three percent of working families with at least one minority parent were low income, nearly twice the proportion of white working families (22 percent). The number of working poor in the United States is higher than they have ever seen it before and it continues to increase at a staggering pace. I'm going

In America during the year 2012 a whopping 57 percent of poor people were between the ages of 18 and 64 (Desilver 2014). This is supposed to be their prime years to work, and make money. In 1959 that age group was at 41.7 percent.

According to the PRB article “U.S. Low-Income Working Families Increasing”, 42.7% of people live below the poverty line, with 32.1% of them living 200% below the poverty line; this group is categorized as the low-income group.(PRB) 59% of low income working families have one or more minority parents. Living in a low-income community limits one’s standard of living through academic gaps, the selection of food available, an ever-present fear of victimization , and a lack of resources available to both children and adults.

“Research indicates that nearly 40 percent of American between the ages of 25 and 60 will experience at least one year below the poverty line during that period.” (Rank) The word poor is usually dealt with extremes, as in being homeless. Poor are simply people who do not have a lot of money. There are several key factors affecting the poor community this day in age. The majority of the poor cannot afford healthcare. A large group of poor people have extremely bad eating habits. The poor community lives in subpar living accommodations. A person who is poor, is a person who does not have a lot of money, and lives in subpar conditions.

Other researchers have since corroborated the findings of high alcohol use, binge-drinking, and marijuana use among offspring of well-educated, white, high-income, two-parent families. But, substance use is not the only errant behavior among the children of privilege. Crime is also widely assumed to be a problem of youth in poverty, but comparable levels of wrongdoing among well-off suburban students and inner-city youth were found. What does differ are the types of rule-breaking, widespread cheating and random acts of delinquency, such as stealing from parents or peers, are more common among the rich. In these studies, are that across geographical areas and public and private schools, upper-middle-class youngsters show alarmingly high rates of serious disturbance. The high rate of maladjustment among affluent adolescents is strikingly counterintuitive. (Luthar,

Family segregation is common when the children have set their own goals and are in search of a better future, and what better way

Social welfare problem is an inevitable issue that continues to exist in society and are getting more complex and difficult for people to prosper, accomplish and reach their potential. Poverty in low income working families intrigued my interest. Low income working families in the United States are earning less, below poverty line and are struggling to pay for necessity like food, rent, child care, medical bills and costs of transportation to work. Low wages workers are in jobs that have no security or benefits making it inevitable for them to invest in their children’s education, buying a car or getting a better job. Children are being malnourished because of their parents low income to buy healthy or sufficient food. Based on research, Single parents are mostly affected with lower income conflict vs nuclear family. Child care is demolishing 30% of workers income. Low wages are making workers unhealthy. Reports from J. Paul Leigh, University of California Davis, epidemiologists, “relationship between low wages

Even with his undergraduate degree in psychology and current earnings of 29,000.00 to 31, 000.00, he considers himself to be below the poverty line. He believes that there isn’t a middle class in the United States anymore due to the economic decline. He’s aware of the struggles that one faces with such low income and considers that he will become an advocate for income equality when he becomes a counselor. He understands the impact that individuals with low income faces and how the cost of treatment may prevent them seeking counseling. His attitude appears to be in agreement with his stated moral and ethical commitment to helping people.

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.

The majority of low income families are minorities. Some people who have no jobs and for those who have jobs, their wages are usually very low and they may end up turning to crime and