Child & Poverty
The risk of encountering absolute poverty and its adverse effects is higher for children than adults. The basic needs like nutrition, health, and education can not be provided due to the harmful effects of growth in poverty. Usually, the poverty in the period of childhood results in poverty in adulthood.
I am the second child of a family within six children. My father was a teacher, that is, a civil servant in the small village. He had regular income every month, but everything was too expensive. Although he had difficulties to effort to provıde lıvelıhoos his family, I remember peace of having enough food and a house to be protected. When I was a little girl, I remembered as a child, my friends around me were poverty. I remember my parents sometimes sharing lunch with the kids. The times when my mother made soup for children on cold and snowy days, and she shared it in the classroom, so I was very proud of them. The moment I experience the highest poverty and deprivation was when I learned that my friend's brother was not be treated and passed away because they were poor.
“For the millions of children across the developing world, living without clean water, sanitation, health care or enough food, life is difficult. Parents often struggle to know how to deal with the problems they face. Often these parents are characterized as inadequate or uncaring when in reality they are merely overwhelmed by what life has dealt them” ( Smidt, 2013: 13 ).
Emerging Turkey's wrong government policies with child poverty is continuing, perhaps, is increasing. I think poverty may resolve through education. Another issue is the Syrian refugees. "There are about 4 million Syrian emigrants, mostly in Turkey and their approximately 1.74 million children. As of January 2019, about 400,000 children are still out of school against 645,000 children enrolled in school" (UNICEF 2017). Turkey describes as a guest to the refugees, and they spend on their children's education seriously. It should be the government's top priority in fighting poverty.
Smidt, S. (2013). The developing child in the 21st century : A global perspective on child development. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com
UNICEF. (2017). Syrian children in Turkey. https://www.unicefturk.org/yazi/acil-durum-turkiyedeki-suriyeli-cocuk.
I think you did a nice job explaining child poverty. It's always a sad topic when it involves children. It breaks my heart to read children living without clean water sanitation, and health care, something a lot of people take for granted.
ReplyDeleteI truly appreciate you providing an explanation of poverty and the need for education for families in poverty. Although there are resources, many families are unaware of the resources available. I wonder what types of resources are available for families in poverty in other countries. It's very difficult to hear about children living in poverty.
ReplyDeleteThis was heartbreaking. I applaud your family for doing what they could to help others. That made me sad to learn her brother died due to poverty. Poverty strikes people all over the world. This is not a centralized issue. There should be more done within the government to ensure that this does not take place. Why are people still going hungry? It just does not make sense to me. The jobs don't pay enough and the cost of food is getting higher.
ReplyDelete-Dorothy Avant