Kristen Moore and Zakia Redds main points was the fact that as poverty is decreasing in the United States there is still a lot of poverty in the States. They are showing about how hard life is for children in poverty, how hard it is for the children in school and just socially how hard life is. The last key point is that they show how to get out of poverty or how to help families in poverty and that there is a way for these families to live a regular life.
Some quotes that I found in this article that will help answer my question about survival according to K. Moore and Z. Redd is “…poor children are more likely to be a low birth weight and to die in the first month of life than children who are not born in poverty” (3). This is trying to show that most likely when the women is pregnant she does not take proper care of herself and the baby is not able to live as long due to the fact of poor nutrition according to Moore and Redd “…poor children are more likely to be raised by single parents and to live in households where there is less parental supervision and more parental distress” (4). Children that live in these kinds of households are expected to get in more trouble, do more poorly in school and have sex at a younger age. The last quote I found is about education from K. Moore and Z. Redd“…early childhood is especially associated with lower cognitive scores and lower school achievement” (4). As children in poverty go to school they struggle more than other children and more likely to produce worse test scores.
This source will build on the readings I did by showing how poverty just does not affect the other countries and that the poverty seen in Africa is also seen in the United States. This source will be extending my theme by showing how it affects a child’s life. Along with showing me how the child struggles as they grow up in health and education. This relates to my thematic essay by talking about poverty and how people live. How poverty affects their health and their family due to the fact that they do not have the proper income they need to live. The quote below will relate to my research by proving that this does happen to people in poverty. That the kids die young and the families just start not to care as much as they should. From Gandhi:
“…shows this by dealing with insanitation, life-destroying trades, adulteration, bribery, and gambling. He shows how, with the advance of wealth, justices has become immoral, deaths from alcoholism and suicide have increased, the average of premature births and congenital defects [have] increased, and congenital defects has increased, and prostitution has become an institution” (338).
As the United States is known as rich country it is proven that there is poverty and this quote gives a good thought of how the poor go to the rich nations and poverty is there to and according to Hardin “…each rich nation can be seen as a lifeboat full of comparatively rich people. In the ocean outside each lifeboat swim the poor of the world, who would like to get in or at least to share some of the wealth…” (358).
I plan on using this source by showing that there is still poverty in the world and even in the United States. I plan on informing my question that is inspired by the course text by looking at the health and education of the children. How some children are not given the chance to get an education or live as long as what they should.
I found this source on Google scholar. The author is Kristin Anderson Moore and Zakia Redd. Kristen has her PhD and Zakia has her M.P.P. they are experts they went out and did research on poverty in the United States and looked at the research in a period of 3 years. This is from the journal of Trends Child Research Brief. With a website of www.childrends.org.
This source will connect to the others by making a connection of how hard it is for the children to live and how bad their health and education can be. This article will make one of the best connections because it is going to agree with the other ones. It will have a good connection of how children live and about how their education is not good. When looking at the other resources it also connects by showing that children with a single parent have a harder life then with two parents.
Works Cited:
Gandhi, Mohandas. “Economic and Moral Progress.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. 2nd. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2003. Page 334-338. Print.
Hardin, Garrett. “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. 2nd. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2003. Page 358-362. Print.
Moore, Kristin. Redd, Zakia. “Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences, and Policy Options” Trends Child Research Brief 54. (2002): Page 3-4. Print.
So it seems like you are now focusing on poverty in the United States....what about it? What question(s) do you plan to explore here? How do you plan to avoid just reporting on poverty issues?
ReplyDeleteAs I have been reading I am looking at poverty in the United States, Canada and Africa. I am looking at how they classify people in poveryt. The questions I plan on exploring are the education of children in poverty and how long they stay in school. Which has been showing taht children drop out before their junior year of high school. Along with the health of the children in poverty and how they sturggle. I plan on avoiding just reporting on poverty issues by looking at the upsides of these families and how they have equal oppurinitites just like every other kid does in school.
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