Annotaiton 9

Amanda Paul

English 104

Section #9

Instructor: Ogburn

      Assignment #14

The authors of Women and Children in the Health Care Gap are Jane Henrici, Ronald Angel, and Laura Lein.

            The writer’s main point is that a child living with just their mother struggles more in life. The authors pointed out that they struggle more in life in education and health. Another main point that the authors showed is that the women get blamed for the children’s poor education and health because they left the house to work. The last main point is that there is help out there but not enough to go around.

            Defining poverty and welfare varies with the readings you do. Though this book goes into income of a single mom with children and a low paying job which is what defines them as poor.  Throughout the readings in this book they talk about single moms, their children and how they struggle.  According to Barbara Arrighni poverty and welfare is

“..The median wage of a mom who transitions from welfare to work is about $8.00 an hour, her gross wage would be $15,406 a year. Although her annual income would then be more than the income a family receiving welfare, would still be poor. The difference: Now she has to pay for childcare, if it is available, her food stamp allotment will be cut, she will have to rely on food pantries to make up the food insufficiency, she will spend less time with her children and she will now work a second shift. For those who earn less than $8.00 an hour, the situation is more critical. The boom line is: “using a variety of measures, relatively more U.S. children are born into disadvantaged environments compared to 40 years ago” the safety net essentially has been removed for poor families and it would appear that policymakers on both sides of the aisle no longer view moms and their children as the deserving poor” (xiii).

Henrici, Angel et al. go to tell us that “Unfortunately, even though adequate health care coverage is necessary for a healthy  and productive life, a growing number of American families face the possibility of short-term or longer-term gaps in coverage”(56). This is trying to tell us that even if the families have some sort of the health care it may not give them the health care they need. The health care they get is usually just to cover the basic and won’t cover anything more than that.  The next quote by Henrici and Angel et al. go to say that single parent’s mothers need to go get jobs to keep their family living a decent life. “More, recently, mothers have been forced to work in the attempt to secure health care for themselves and their children. Unfortunately, given the types of jobs that poorly educated and low-skill women can get the effort is often futile” (58). Though not many of the mothers are able to get jobs because their education is low, they do not have a high school diploma which will prevent them from getting a job and keeping a healthy family. The last quote from Henrici and Angel et al. has to do with how hard the mothers work and not being able to make the income meet the need they need. “Even working mothers often need assistance with child care, medical care, food stamps and other problems areas to make ends meet”  (66). Mothers are trying to supply their children but do not make enough money to be able to meet needs for their children.

            I see this source building on the reading about poverty somehow by expanding the idea of children struggling in life and not making life the way it should be. It will expand the thought of poverty in the world and go into how it is mainly the women’s mistake for being in poverty because they are not home to take care of the house and their children.  I see this extending my see this connecting to the essay by just expanding that poverty affects health and education.  Children who do not have a supportive family will not go far. This relates to my essay by expanding the idea of poverty and looking more at how women impact poverty. There are no specific quotes from the book to back this.

            I plan on using this source to tell about how women get blamed for poverty and how the women working can affect a childs health and education. This will answer the question I am looking at by telling the audience how women working in poor families can lead to a failure of the Childs education and health.

            I found this source in the Concordia Library.  The authors are Health Care Gap are Jane Henrici, Ronald Angel, and Laura Lein. These are experts because they went out and did research of poverty of different families in different parts of the United States. This is a in a series of a book.

            I see this source connecting to the other annotation by showing that poverty is in everywhere. That it doesn’t just effect on place.  This is going to agree with most annotations by showing that poverty does effect a childs education and health.  Another conversation will be how poverty does effect a childs health and education but can be prevented by the children getting involved in different programs when they are younger.

Work Cited

Arrighi, Barbara. “Introduction.”Child Poverty In America Volume 4 . Barabara Arrighi. David Maume. Westport, Connecticut. Praeger Perspecitives 2007.  Page xiii. Print.

Henricic, Jane. Angel, Ronalds. Et al. “Women and Children in the Health Care Gap.” Child

Poverty In America Volume 4. 2 Barabara Arrighi. David Maume. Westport, Connecticut. Praeger Perspecitives. 2007. Page 56-66. Print.