project: How are children being affected by poverty .

Annotated Bibliography

· Child Poverty Action Group. (2018). The Impacts of Poverty. Internet source. Retrieved http://cpag.org.uk/content/impact-poverty.

This article presents the new standards of the Child Poverty Group. It elaborates into details how poverty feels to children. The article provides that children that originate from poorer backgrounds normally lag behind their more affluent peers at all the stages of education. It also notes goes ahead and provided that poverty is associated with higher degree of risks of both premature death and many illnesses. It summarizes by stating that children who live in stinking poverty are likely to live in bad housing. (CPAG, 2018). Comment by Anna Muraco: awk word choice

· David, M. , & Zakia, F. (2014). 5 Ways Poverty harms Children, Trends Child, and Retrieved from, https://www.childtrends.org/child-trends-5/5-ways-poverty-harms-children. Comment by Anna Muraco: Not peer reviewed

This article presents that poverty harms children's brains and other body organs where when they become adults, the chances of them being diagnosed with such illnesses as chronic diseases are on high. It goes ahead and tell us that poverty creates and widens the achievement gaps where it becomes hard for poor children to achieve their dreams. This is because poverty will deny them accessibility to quality education and social/ emotional development. Poor children are likely of drop out of school and even fail to attend post-secondary education. (David, 2014).

· Community Practitioner, May 2004, Vol.77 (5), p.191 . Comment by Anna Muraco: What is the name of the article? Comment by Anna Muraco: This does not appear to be peer reviewed

According to this article, poverty leads to poor physical behavioral and emotional health. Poverty exposes children's wellbeing to various threatss to wellbeing. Children in poor communities lack food security as well as a sufficient diet in vital nutrients for growth. Such diseases as asthma areis common with children in this kind of set up. Moreover, there is the likelihood of receiving poor medical and dental care and hence these children end up suffering a lot. In the main findings in the book, the author states that nutrition does not exist in poor families. (Community Practitioner, 2004).

· Ristikari, T ; Paananen, R ; Merikukka, M ; Gissler, M.European Journal of Public Health, 10/01/2013, Vol.23(suppl_1 ). Comment by Anna Muraco: What is the name of the article?

This peer reviewed journal indicate that children from poor families are likely to live in the neighborhoods with concentrated poverty and have numerous social ills, . sSuch as negative academic outcomes, poor health and physical finesses systems and behavioral problems are common in these neighborhoods. The articlejournal also provides that these environment exposes the children to environmental toxins, other physical hazards, crime and violence amongst others. These children will also attend schools with poor resources. Failure is more eminent is such set ups. Comment by Anna Muraco: What data do the authors use?

· Amin, L. ; Shah, B. R. ; Bierman, A. S. ; Lipscombe, L. L. ; Wu, C. F. ; Feig, D. S. ; Booth , G. L.Diabetic Medicine, November 2014, Vol.31(11), pp.1410-1417. Comment by Anna Muraco: Sources should be in alphabetical order according to the last name of the first author

In this article, the authors present negative effects of poverty on children, families, and their immediate environment as well. Parents in poor communities face a lot of challenges such as aggravation, stress, and depressive symptoms. These parents have hard time trying to plan, prepare and provide for the family basic needs. Housing instability in evident is this kind of setting. These children are likely to engage in criminal activities in a bid to look for means of survival at home. Comment by Anna Muraco: Did the researchers analyze data?

· Children Society, (2018). What are the effects of Child poverty? Retrieved from : https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-we-do/our-work/ending-child-poverty/what-are-the-effects-of-child-poverty. Comment by Anna Muraco: Not peer reviewed

The author of the article summarizes his article on the effects of poverty on children as a feeling of unsafe, social deprivation, stigma and bullying at school, low sense of wellbeing, poor physical health among others. In poorer families, there is little or no support given to children to help them become important people in the society. His main finding is that when children are exposed to poverty, the likelihood of them becoming poor is high because some may lack an inspiration to become of value to the community The children are leas focused as opposed to children in well off families.

· Berzin, Stephanie Cosner ; De Marco, Allison C Youth & Society , December 2010, Vol.42(2), pp.278-300. Comment by Anna Muraco: What is the name of the article?

The authors of this book however put a lot emphasis on the topic sex and education. (pg.200). They describe that children living in poor families after dropping out of school, engage in other activities such as sex. According to a research they conducted, children in poor neighborhood start engaging in sex as early as 10 years. The mostly affected gender were the female teens who ended up pregnant while still in the primary level of education. This implies a school dropout. Teenage pregnancy is so rampant is these areas. The families were overcrowded because, children also brought their children’s into the families. They also stress that there is lack of awareness created in terms HIV/AIDS. A higher number of people in poor families had contacted HIV/AIDS and hence the families became poorer as none could afford to go and look for jobs since they were all sick and had various health problems.

· Machell, Kyla ; Disabato, David ; Kashdan, ToddSocial Indicators Research, 2016, Vol.126(2), pp.845-861.

This article focuses is more specific on youths. The poor neighborhoods have little support from the government as far as developmental of rehabilitations centers, vocational training centers and guidance and counselling centers. These are the places useful for youths who did not complete schools due lack of finances to go and find a Course of interest and out of it generate a means of survival. Lack of these facilities have led to an increase in the rate of immorality where young children have ended being exposed to immorality while rape cases rise in these neighborhoods.

· Gyamfi, Phyllis Children and Youth Services Review, 2004, Vol.26 (12), pp.1129-1139.

This article in addition also discussed the aftermath of poverty to children where it provides that poverty leads to children leaving their places of residence to go and settle in the streets. According to this article, the high number of street children in town is attributed to high rate of poverty that a country tolerates. (Gyamfi, 2004) The key take away herein is that children in poor neighborhoods should be enrolled in rehabs and educated.

· In Healey, J. (2014). Children living in poverty.

The children living in poor families have a lot of potential and a strong drive to work hard and walk out of poverty. However due to negligence by the government to mentor some of these children, they end up giving up in education. This article is sending a message to the government not to look down up children in poor areas,

References.

In Healey, J. (2014). Children living in poverty.

Gyamfi, Phyllis Children and Youth Services Review, 2004, Vol.26 (12), pp.1129-1139.

Child Poverty Action Group. (2018). The Impacts of Poverty. Internet source. Retrieved http://cpag.org.uk/content/impact-poverty.

David, M. , & Zakia, F. (2014). 5 Ways Poverty harms Children, Trends Child, and Retrieved from, https://www.childtrends.org/child-trends-5/5-ways-poverty-harms-children.

Ristikari, T ; Paananen, R ; Merikukka, M ; Gissler, M.European Journal of Public Health, 10/01/2013, Vol.23(suppl_1).

Amin, L. ; Shah, B. R. ; Bierman, A. S. ; Lipscombe, L. L. ; Wu, C. F. ; Feig, D. S. ; Booth, G. L.Diabetic Medicine, November 2014, Vol.31(11), pp.1410-1417.

Children Society, (2018). What are the effects of Child poverty? Retrieved from : https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-we-do/our-work/ending-child-poverty/what-are-the-effects-of-child-poverty.

Berzin, Stephanie Cosner ; De Marco, Allison CYouth & Society, December 2010, Vol.42(2), pp.278-300.

Machell, Kyla ; Disabato, David ; Kashdan, ToddSocial Indicators Research, 2016, Vol.126(2), pp.845-861.