![]() Kids should get to grow up as kids, and poverty takes that away from them.But through doing insisting on showing off her daughter, she inadvertently ends up imparting another valuable lesson to Meimei. It was also very saddening to see a child having to act responsible enough to watch siblings or help pay bills because of that struggle. In this video, it was heartwarming to see how much these children cared for their families and helped their parents who they knew where struggling. ![]() Kalia and Kyah's mother had been searching for a better place to live for them, but was struggling to find somewhere to stay within Kyah's school district. The final family that this video filmed was a family of three living in a small apartment. Her sister Miracle helped care for her younger sister and helped with housework along with working towards her dream of going to college. Online learning for Laikyen was very difficulty because of her ADHD, and concentrating on learning on her own was a struggle for her, and her grades showed it. ![]() Laikyen, had been sent home from school because of COVID, and had been living at home with her sister and her mother, who worked all sorts of hours at a gas station. Many times, Shawn had to help with housework and watch his sister while his mom worked to receive her benefits. Many children in poverty are living with single parents, like Shawn's mom, who struggles to raise her family and pay the bills. Seeing how hard the children worked at their school work as well a helping their parents was heartwarming, but it also made me sad to see that they had to be separated from family and not given the proper childhood they deserve. It was very frustrating for me to see these children suffering and seeing how they had to struggle through learning online due to COVID. Watching this video interested me, as child poverty is what I am writing my paper on. His study proved how much financial stability can do for teens, as teens with financial instability tended to cause more crime than teens with that stability. He found that teenagers in high poverty neighborhoods were committing more crime than other teenagers. Results showed that teenagers were the common factor in homicides compared to other ages, but things were different when the poverty aspect was added in. In this article they summarize a study ran by Mike Males which looked at teenagers and their crime rates, specifically with homicides, and then re-examined these rates after controlling for poverty. Yes, there are different factors that assist in increasing delinquency in these age groups like peer pressure, video games, etc., but what people don't see is the other side of things, poverty. They would blame the underdeveloped teenage brain for the delinquency rates within those age groups. People used to look at teenagers as prone to committing crime, as if all teenagers were supposed to act that way. In the article "It's poverty, Not the 'Teenage Brain', That Causes the Most Youth Crime", They discuss what people tend to think the reason for crime and delinquency in teenagers is as well as what they believe it really is.
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