Ideas About Poverty Abroad
Over the past two weeks I’ve researched a website known as the Childhood Poverty Research and Policy (CHIP) (http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/). This organization has many great things to offer, but I took a closer look at the crisis of childhood poverty in China. Two children by the name of Nan Nan (a 14 year old girl), and Xiao Bo (a 13 year old boy) express their dissatisfaction with the way things are going for them as their parents have relocated to different cities as a result of the poverty in their homeland. Instead of crying over the situation, I found it intriguing how each child pitched in to help as much as they could. Nan Nan began to care for her siblings, getting up and cooking breakfast for them before going to school and then helping them with homework, serving dinner and putting them to bed. In my observation, what seemed to be a wonderful decision by her parents to move in hopes of obtaining a better life, now becomes the catalyst for added indirect negativities of childhood neglect.
As a result of my research, the following three ideas were developed:
· The age of accountability seems to be lower for children in poverty;
· Children of poverty stricken areas have feelings about hopelessness; and
· No matter what country they are in and regardless of how impoverished they may be , children will always find a way to play or identify with friends if given the chance to do so
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It seems as though children that lives in poverty have to grow up much faster and take on the burdens of caring for the family or at least helping care for the family. I hope that we can find solutions to end this issue.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Allison that children in poverty situations are stuck with growing up so young and being forced to sacrifice their very own childhood to raise siblings and possibly support an entire family. These children have lost all sense of what it's like to be young. Poverty effects so much more than just money. Thank you for your wonderful post! :)
ReplyDeleteThe responsibilities of children who grow up in impovrished situations are unbelievable. Many of them have to prepare meals, fend for themselves, and take care of younger siblings. However, the benefit of them taking on such task does require them to be more mature although they are not afforded the opporitunity to fully experience childhood. As Allison mentioned, pehaps we can collaborate with existing agencies to eliminate such issues.
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