Personal Narrative: What Is It Like To Live On Poverty

What is it like to live on poverty level? I can tell you about it from a personal experience, as a child I learned about it firsthand. I watched my mother make hard choices, raising four kids. She took on the responsibility of the father role for years due to a dead-beat dad. I have to say she is my hero, she taught us how to take care of our needs first, then our wants, and to be thankful for all that we had, even when we were eating meatloaf again for the third day, and to this day I will not fix meat loaf or salmon patties. We wore hand me downs from cousins, or handmade dresses made by my grandmother. So, doing the poverty simulator made think back on my mother's choices and what she gave up to see us taken care of, in our eye we

In the middle ages people that were suffering in poverty were taken care of by the church. Tithing was like a local tax, and the money collected helped take care of the local poor in the district. The church was the chapel and the infirmary.(st.johnschs.org) In the Elizabethan Era, the Poor Law was passed, due the increasing number of poor. This law defined what services the poor could receive; it also gave out punishments to those that refused to work and were able. This included a tax that helped raise funds to provide for the needy. Reaching the 18th century, a dramatic change in the care of people with mental illness occurred. For those in mental institutions, this period meant improved diets, regular exercise, religious observance, and the development of the mind while being institutionalized. (Woodside, M. R. (2015). An Introduction to the Human Services, 8th Edition. Pg34) In colonial America institutions were built to house the needy as they did in England. Almshouses were built to house the poor, they were built sporadically throughout the towns, production of the houses made it obvious there were a large group of needy people, that the town could not support, poor vagrants and strangers were told leave