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help me please... this is my term paper

2007-12-10 20:20:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science Economics

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ABSOLUTELY!

Parent's are the absolute source of this problem. Simply put. How many children of middle class and upper class parents fall into poverty? Damn near none. Children, as a matter of fact, tend to achieve either the social class of their parents or one social class higher.

Parent's who are already in poverty tend to have more children than their more successful peers. This increase in children born to poverty only breeds further failure because the children are not raised to know that other possibilities exist.

A good term paper would be, "Should the government remove children from households below the poverty line". It's hugely confrontational and will never happen, but that only makes it a more interesting paper.

2007-12-10 20:31:50 · answer #1 · answered by Jake B 4 · 0 2

Much of the permanent poverty in the US is due to alcohol / drug abuse, or mental and physical illness. These arise from both genetic and environmental causes, but both are determined by the parents so you can say it is their fault. Students who live in their own households also get counted in the poverty numbers even though they are being supported by their parents, so this can also be said to be their parents fault. But the changes in the poverty rate is usually due to economic conditions causing people to fall below the poverty line temporally due to job losses.
In the US the poverty income is fixed but some countries like the UK set the poverty level as a fraction of the median income, so when wages increase more people are counted as poor.
Before you write your paper you should find out who is counted as poor, statistics can be misleading.

2007-12-11 08:42:09 · answer #2 · answered by meg 7 · 0 1

Yes, some parents are the causes of rising poverty. For many reasons some of them though being poor and findng it difficult to make both ends meet, have large number of children and invite greater poverty to larger number of human beings from the very childhood. The reasons why they have more children is because they think, though incorrectly, that sexual pleasure is cheap entertainment and caring for children and seeing them grow is least costly way of happiness in life. Religious and social customs lead them to believe that should have sons even if they have succession of girls in the begining and tey avoid abortion. Third, they think the larger the number of children greater are the number of hands to work with and earn livelihood for the family and they think that in their old age atleast some of their children will look after them. Because of lack of education they cannot see that their thinking is faulty and their course of action is hurting them and making more human beings suffer from poverty even from the very childhood. Old custms and relious practices stop them from taking advantage of modern birth control aids and help.

2007-12-11 04:45:46 · answer #3 · answered by sensekonomikx 7 · 1 2

Dumb parents.

2007-12-11 04:42:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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