Answer:
Brainly User. Development means to progress in order to achieve a certain goal. These goals are different for different people or groups of people. Development can involve any area of specialization such as health, finance or education.
Explanation:
I would say the theme is that when a child grows up, what his/her circumstances are determines to a large degree how they will fare in life. In this case the girl was abandoned by her father and her mother couldn't look after her because she had to work so her daughter had to be brought up by relatives. Also, she is described as dark so perhaps dark skinned which would make her a target for racism if say in Canada or the US. Dr Gabor Mate, a medical doctor in the downtown eastside of Vancouver, BC Canada says that, for example, drug addicts have most often had a terrible upbringing so they have sought relief from the emotional and physical pain with narcotics. For example, one baby was kept in the dryer with a weight on the lid while his mom went to bars to pick up men.
The word that could fit the gap is definitely a possessive pronoun such as their, used because it refers to the previous pronoun them
