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Green C

Study:Poverty dramatically affects childrens brains - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...8-12-07-childrens-brains_N.htm

poverty causes health children brain development

shared by Green C on 13 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Green C on 13 Jan 11
     
    This article describes how poverty affects childrens brains. The articles says that lower class children's brains develope differently than those of the higher and middle class. This affects thier language skills and thier "ability to plan and remember details". I found this article interesting, and i think it might help explain why people who grew up in poverty have trouble getting out of it when they are older.
Althauser M

Poverty is poison - 9 views

www.nytimes.com/...18krugman.html

shared by Althauser M on 11 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Gonzalez A on 11 Jan 11
     
    It's mostly about the effect poverty has on people (like children) throughout their life. "many children growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones, which impair their neural development."
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  • Althauser M on 12 Jan 11
     
    Its about when young kids are born into a family thats poor and it affects the stress hormones and its also about paul krugman talking about the change in poverty, through out the years.
  • Banks T on 12 Jan 11
     
    I feel horrible for kids growing up in poverty. It's not their fault what family they are born into, but they still have to deal with it. This article tells about how growing up in poverty poisions your mind. You are an outcast, and are looked down upon. It messes with your homones and can damage your views of yourself and others. Because of this, a lot of kids are never able to get out of living in poverty, continuing the awful cycle.
  • Stockhausen M on 13 Jan 11
     
    I find it so sad that poverty is a cycle like that. Poverty stops you from being able to et good jobs and make enough money to get out of poverty.
  • Green C on 13 Jan 11
     
    I was suprised to hear that "American children born to parents in the bottom fourth of the income distribution have almost a 50 percent chance of staying there"
  • Fischbach J on 14 Jan 11
     
    I thought the quote "poverty in early childhood poisons the brain," was really interesting. If you are in poverty as a child you feel ashamed and never are brought out of it, then making your children live it in their lives too. I thought that quote was very strong.
  • Giesman G on 14 Jan 11
     
    it makes me extermly upset to know that a childs brain devlopment can be damaged by their finachal situation. its just not right.
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