Why Do Children Grow Up In Poverty?

Poverty – a social phenomenon which exists regardless of location. Even the United States, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, faces serious problems with poverty. Some major causes of poverty include obvious reasons such as lack of money, but other causes can grow to include overpopulation, lack of or poor education, hunger, war, and natural disasters. A recent World Bank study concluded that roughly 400 million children across the globe are living in extreme poverty.
There are also many psychological effects to growing up in poverty. Professor K. Luan Phan, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, recently conducted a psychological study which calculated the effects childhood poverty has on regulatory
If an impoverished child does not have the health insurance or money to see a doctor, the child will not receive the immunizations and checkups that are necessary to make sure that they are healthy. Furthermore, when a child grows up in poverty, they are presumably underdeveloped.
Additionally, a high risk for teenage pregnancy is an effect of growing up in poverty. When teenager girls grow up in poverty, they are more likely to become pregnant at an early age. Further, teenagers who grow up in poverty are likely to have less access to contraceptive devices (such as birth control and condoms), which can increase the chances of having a baby at a young age. As a result, these teenage girls that become pregnant at an early age lack the financial means to support the child, which will likely result as the continuation of life in poverty as an adult.
There are approximately one in four American children living in poverty as of now. The impact of this socioeconomic phenomenon will be inevitable for many years to come. The future social approach must adequately account for all human costs of poverty – including those costs that may not always be visible to the blind