Question

discuss 3 consequences that poverty has on the community
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Answer 1

Answer:

The major consequences of poverty on community are:

1) Family Problem

• The poor are at greater risk for family problems, including divorce and domestic violence.
• Families that are poor have more stress because of their poverty, and the ordinary stresses of family life become even more intense in poor families
• The various kinds of family problems thus happen more commonly in poor families than in wealthier families. Compounding this situation, when these problems occur, poor families have fewer resources than wealthier families to deal with these problems

2)  Health, Illness, and Medical Care

• The poor are also more likely to have many kinds of health problems, including infant mortality, earlier adulthood mortality, and mental illness, and they are also more likely to receive inadequate medical care
• Poor children are more likely to have inadequate nutrition and, partly for this reason, to suffer health, behavioral, and cognitive problems.
• These problems in turn impair their ability to do well in school and land stable employment as adults, helping to ensure that poverty will persist across generations

3) Education

• Poor children typically go to rundown schools with inadequate facilities where they receive inadequate schooling.
• They are much less likely than wealthier children to graduate from high school or to go to college.
• Their lack of education in turn restricts them and their own children to poverty, once again helping to ensure a vicious cycle of continuing poverty across generations.