Brain Development Of Small Children In Poverty

Poverty. It is not only being poor. It means a lot more. Poverty means being cold and afraid. Poverty is not knowing where your next meal will come from. Living in poverty is not only detrimental to adults, but children too. Growing up in poverty is harmful to the brain development of small children; to fix this, the minimum wage rate should be raised; after it is raised there should be less people living in poverty, which means childlrens’ chances of success are increased. Children who live in poverty have smaller brain area than those who live in wealth. Resent reasearch has shown that poverty can be a main contribution to smaller brain area. In these studies, researchers were more engrossed in studying the part of the brain that