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  • Essay / The Effects of Living in Poverty - 657

    The term poverty comes from the meaning that a family or individual is too poor to afford the basic necessities necessary for a natural way of life. Poverty takes many forms today. The world we live in today is plagued by a significant number of lower class families who are torn apart and plagued by ever-increasing problems such as drugs, violence and lack of nominal income to support themselves. . a healthy lifestyle. This creates a portal that the next generation can support and exit. How does poverty affect not only the individual but also their families and children? How, in today's society of the country where opportunities are free and equal, does the effect on poverty increasingly dampen the chances of young children to regain sufficient strength and create a society that is not borne by social poverty or by the lower class? To first understand why the chances of regaining strength and moving out of the social barrier or lower class due to external influences, we need to distinguish the differences between children born in the lower class by specifically targeting the educational environment. A fundamental and widely recognized factor among today's poor and lower class children is the nutritional system that is taught to them from a young age and which negatively affects their habits and lifestyle as they grow up. Generally, within the lower class population, foods tend to have lower nutritional value, because within the general public, the least expensive foods are usually fast foods and products supplemented with GMOs and high amount of saturated fats and sugars. Especially in the morning, when the meal is most crucial for the gray matter of the child's brain, families in lower grades...... middle of paper ...... in teaching and learning are represented in the first years of life a child's academic career. Kindergarten through second grade are considered the most influential years of a child's academic career, during which the basic functions of following rules, manipulating, and understanding the fundamentals of arithmetic , reading and writing are introduced to children. Children belonging to the lower socio-economic circle of the society are not in tune with these principles or do not understand them due to lack of vocabulary or lack of memory due to external factors. The child is more likely not to participate within the confines of a classroom. fear of looking like an inferior or “stupid” or inconsistent.