a thing to other humans. For a child to have to grow up in a shack of a house with no heat or running water is a tragedy. As the author describes having only one set of clothes can put one at high risk for teasing. If a child is being teased he or she will not want to go to school. And if they are not in school than they won't learn anything. Education is vital to a person who wants to make it anywhere in life. Another situation discussed by the author is the effect of poverty in adult years. It is really hard to raise children being a single mom. It takes two incomes to have a stable life style. A parent would do anything for their children including giving up luxuries to put food on the table everyday. It is difficult to get a good paying job if you don't have the right degrees. It's hard to try to go to school, to get the skills needed to advance in life, and hold down a low paying job and take care of your children.Poverty effects people throughout their life. It has many psychological effects on people such as mental anguish. Some people are good at dealing with these problems. A major point we need to get across to our children is to respect others and treat them as you would want to be treated. Our children's morals have been blown out of the water with this new age independent rebel attitude. Poverty is not a disease it's real life people just trying to survive. ...
