Family Relations and Poverty

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This paper attempts to prove how, more often than not, poverty severely hampers and hinders the ability of most families to form happy and healthy relationships. It looks at how families growing up in a financially stable environment are much more likely to form happy and healthy love and relational bonds than families growing up in financially depressed circumstances. It shows how happy and healthy relationships are contingent on the ability of parents to role model similar behaviors to their children. It also looks at how, in order to combat the effects of poverty on the family, the integration of more social support systems is required and how families need help learning to effectively deal with the outside world, so they can better learn to form the healthy communication bonds necessary to help them deal with their family world.

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"Poverty is driven by many factors, one of which is single parenting. Almost 90% of single-parent families are "headed by females" and single mothers in the United States have the highest poverty rate of all groups (Kirby 2002, Olson & Baynard, 1993). Among U. S. Children living with single mothers, more than 60% are impoverished, and the rate of poverty among minority children is even higher, particularly African-American single-parent homes (Kirby 2002, Lindblad-Goldberg, 1989). Of course many two parent family units living in poverty also exist. It is important when assessing love and health relations in the family unit however, to examine all of the contributors to emotional disturbance and a negative relational outcome."

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