Annotation 7

Amanda Paul

English 104

Section #9

Instructor: Ogburn

      Assignment #13

The Authors of The Relationship between Poverty and Child Health: Long-Range Implications is Gail Aitkin and Andy Mitchell. These writers main point is that poverty in Canada is quite popular. There is quite of few people in poverty. Though they show that poverty affects children’s health and educations and most children in poverty do not graduate high school. Another point is that Canada is trying to write policies to decrease poverty and they are giving families that are in debt options to help their children succeed in school and life.

            Aitkin and Mitchell show that “As the ranks of the working and unemployed poor swell, it is abundantly clear that a growing number of children are cheated of the opportunity to become fully functioning, healthy adults” (20). The authors are trying to tell the readers that children in poverty will not live that long and if they live a long life it will not be a successful life. I take it to be telling me that children in poverty will not live long due to their parent’s mistakes.  Another quote from Aitkin and Mitchell is “Children’s health and well-being cannot help but be affected by such profound chances in their environment as parental unemployment” (23). They are saying that children living in an environment where their parents do not work are not living in a safe environment. This is because it is not a stable life, most likely where they live is not safe because of the chemicals in the house and they are not taking proper care of the house. This to me is saying that children in poverty should not live in houses like this, that if the parents cannot afford a house that is safe the children should not be living with them. This could put their lives more at risk if they are in a bad housing environment. As this has had to deal with health I will now move onto education from Aitkin and Mitchell they go to quote “Radwanki  attributed the disadvantages experienced by students from poor families in the school system to poorer learning enivomrnents, more crowded and less private study space, less parental involvement in school work, and lower parental expectations for their children. Moreover, the streaming practices of public schools meant that the education system, rather than providing equality of opportunity, actually ghettoized children to “lower tiers of education characterized by low expectations and lack of clearly defined intended outcomes, from which they are statistically unlikely to graduate and in which they will have learned comparatively little even if they do remain in school”” (27). Radwanski is trying to show people that if children in poverty do not have the right support they will do well in life. For me this is telling me that children in poverty need extra attention to succeed in school and life.

            I see this source building on the readings I have done in this course by looking outside of Africa and East Berlin and looking at another country that is poor. This will build by showing  the Canadians that are in poverty are most likely getting paid minimum wage which was shown in Yunus Muhhamds writing about talking about how East Berlin’s people struggled and showed it by talking to different citizens the East Berlin that were poor for example a women that sold Baboo made “five taka and fifty poysha” (371). Muammad Yunus is showing that people did not make enough money to live and that is true up in Canada and around other places and Is found everyone someone looks . I see it relating to my paper by expananding on other countries bestride Africa and East Berlin that were in trouble financial and saw their people struggling.

            I plan on using this source to answer the question that I came up by reading the text by showing that other countries struggle that it’s just not out east. Also by actually answering does survival rate get affected and education because this resource from Canada has the answers to an extent.

            I found this source online on Google scholars. The author of this is Gail Aitkin from the School of Social Work and Andy Mitchell and he is from Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto. They are experts they went and did research and looked up at other articles that had to do with poverty and then went out and did surveys and looked at other surveys through Canada. This is in a Journal of CRSP/RCPS.

            I see this source connect to the other annotations I did by showing that poverty does effect education and health. This source may have an agreement considering this Canada and the United States so there are some differences but not many.

Work Cited

Aitken, Gail. Mitchell, Andy. “The Relationship Between Poverty and Child Health: Long-Range Implications.” CRSP/RCPS No. 35. (1995). Page 19-27. Print.

Muhammad Yunus. “The Stool Makers of Jobra Villager.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. 2^nd. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2003. Page 377. Print.