'There Are No Children Here'

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This paper presents a discussion about issues presented in 'There Are No Children Here' by Alex Kotlowitz. This paper explores the ways the system failed this family and argues the outcome for the family would have been different had a reformed system been used.

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"The second way that the social system failed the family was in not providing mandatory counseling and classes for LaJoe, the mother of the children in how to better their lives. Under the AFDC system multiple generations lived on the welfare doles from grandma down to grandchild. How could LaJoe be expected to know how to do any better when she had never seen an example of how it can be done? The social system let her down and consequently let those children down by sending a check that was not enough to survive on and never showing her a way out and off of the system. The old saying "give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and feed him for life" was never more evidenced and proven than it was in this story. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Kotlowitz, Alex. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Paperback) Anchor; Reissue edition (January 5, 1992)

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