Why do we need to care for marginalized poor children? Are there any differences between poverty in the one of the world’s wealthiest country – USA – and in developing country – Georgia? What are the dilemmas about children poverty and how can we solve them? These are the main questions of these research paper. I was always thinking about poverty and especially, poor children within it, because “children are our most valuable resource.” Before going in depth to discuss aspects of being marginalized poor child, we should define what poverty and marginalization is. There is no common definition of poverty or marginalization that is accepted by everyone, but I’ll show just one general interpretation. By Wikipedia, “poverty is general scarcity, dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.” The social concept marginalization first was used by American urban sociologist Robert Ezra Park in 1982 and Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as “putting or keeping someone in a powerless or unimportant position …show more content…
I was aware of this, but the statistics I saw during my research were still shocking, that’s why we need to do our best to help them. “Almost half the world – over 3 billion people – live on less than $2.50 a day. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world).” And if there still is a question why does marginalization matter? Is something I need to be concerned with? Yes, it is, because poor children are our future, the future which will be the same or even worse if they will still stay in the streets without attention and remain on the margins of society – “Children are one third of our population and all of our future.” This is a global problem, all of us are touched by it, not only poor. Any of us can be at the poverty line tomorrow. “Poverty is everyone’s