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DISCUSSION Early Childhood Physical and Cognitive Development

DISCUSSION Early Childhood Physical and Cognitive Development

Q 1. What are the negative impacts that poverty can have on children? What are some of the major issues linked to poverty that impact children and how? For example: How might food insecurity result in negative impacts on children’s health? How might housing instability impact children’s cognitive abilities? Be sure to reference your outside research in your responses. 2. Who is responsible for helping children who struggle in poverty – the family, the government, the education system, society at large, or perhaps a combination of these? Why? 3. What steps can our society begin to take in order to eliminate child poverty? Make specific, concrete recommendations, and reference your outside research in your answer.

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In the United States, children nearly 11 million are poor, which means 1 in 7 kids who make up almost one-third of all people living in the poverty. More than four in ten children live in a household struggling to meet the basic needs and between seven million and 11 million children live in a household in which they are unable to eat enough because of the cost (Sherman, 2020). Psychological research has demonstrated that living in poverty has a wide range of negative effects on the physical and mental health and well-being of our nation’s children. Poverty is linked with negative conditions such as homelessness, substandard housing, food insecurity, unsafe neighbors, and under-resourced schools which adversely impact children.