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A 4 page review of the many impacts poverty can have on young children. When children are poor,
society as a whole pays. The problems these children experience can be both direct and indirect. Impoverished children are more likely to be the victim of child abuse, for example. The societal mechanisms we have in place to address such problems are insufficient. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Poverty has a phenomenal impact on a childs life. This impact is not always limited to strictly economic concerns. Indeed, poverty is associated with a number of additional
problems. Besharov and Laumann (2001), for example, report a tremendous correlation between poverty and child abuse. Citing findings from a 1997 police and child-protective agency evaluation of some
three million reports of suspected child abuse or neglect, these authors report that a quarter to half of these cases had a correlation with poverty (Besharov and Laumann, 2001).
Kircher (1996) clarifies that although child abuse is not limited to poor families, there are many correlations between poverty and child abuse, correlations which in particular present considerable problems for
the health care professional in regard to interceding in cases of child abuse. Too often we tend to associate child abuse with race or ethnicity. Nothing could be
further from the truth. While there is a correlation between race or ethnicity and poverty, there is no correlation between race and ethnicity and child abuse (Larson, 2001).
We as a society want to look the other way regarding the issues that are intertwined with poverty. In fact, it doesnt take a great deal of historical awareness
to recognize that politicians have engaged in all sorts of acrobatics to negate out the existence of the poor and the association of the poor with race and gender.
Despite the semantics, however, poverty remains a very real component of the American landscape. At the same time, however, the fact that such effort goes into ignoring the presence
of the poor is a reflection of how our society views the poor and thus the non-whites and females who comprise it. Rubin (1994, 30) confirms that the intent
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