Question

Explain three harmful effects of poverty on ones personal life

Answer 1

1.Education:

Only 14 percent of the variation in a child’s performance can be attributed to school quality, according to Donald Hirsch, advisor to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. This means that a child’s background has a significant effect on their performance in school.

2.Child Development:

Children living in poverty are more likely to learn poor health behaviors and are more susceptible to mental illness as they grow older. Children living in constant poverty also show the worst cognitive development, compared to children from higher socio-economic backgrounds.

3.Crime

The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime found that poverty had a significant and direct effect on young people’s likelihood to engage in violence at age 15. Young people living in a family where the head of the household was unemployed were also more likely to participate in criminal behavior.