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Poverty In Early Childhood

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Early Childhood Poverty
Poverty in early childhood happens because the parent(s) are poor. The parents are poor because of limited resources, lack of “social assistance”, less income, less education, and lack of employment and training (p.208). Poor households can’t buy sufficient goods and services for their children. In third world countries, poverty is widespread due to a number of reasons that we can’t get into for this paper. Countries like the Scandinavian countries that invest in social assistance programs have lower “child poverty rates” compared to other industrialized countries (p.208). In industrialized countries like the U.S., studies show that income and health are related…”health is related to relative income” (p.208). Poor parents

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