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How can children be poor? Aren't their parents poor? Or are children supposed to provide for them selves in US?
by flimflamm 5y ago
How can children be poor? Aren't their parents poor? Or are children supposed to provide for them selves in US?
- ip26 5y agoWe attach a dollar figure to make it easier to measure, but a different way to look at it is when your basic needs are not met (food, shelter) you live in poverty; you are impoverished.
- stevenpetryk 5y agoConsider this: the intention is quite obvious, and the gravity of the situation makes pedantry like this come across as completely tone-deaf.
- NineStarPoint 5y agoThe phrase isn’t “children who are poor”, it’s “children living in poverty.” Which yes primarily counts children living with poor parents, but could also count runaway children, children living as wards of the state in bad conditions, etc. Either way, it’s defined as children in living conditions that don’t have enough resources to meet a minimal acceptable standard.
- munk-a 5y agoDependents can certainly live in poverty - that does almost always indicate that the family unit as a whole lives in poverty but it does allow some differentiation for families that are struggling with debt but manage to provide a relatively poverty free childhood for their offspring.
- droopyEyelids 5y agoYou're getting downvoted for the joke, but in a way, yes everyone in the USA is supposed to provide for themselves. Aside from a few demeaning and complicated government programs, the USA has only distributed resources through factor payments based on labor, or ownership of capital. Most of our programs aiming to help the poor only phase in after the poor have earned a certain amount of money through labor.
- wolverine876 5y agoI would look past the literal question in the parent, and think about the implications: Who provides for children? Why should they suffer poverty, having no power or responsibility for their own condition?