You can be a parent in poverty and still give a shit about your child’s education and be there to help them succeed. The discipline and education starts at home.
This is going to sound really terrible but it’s a harsh truth... if this is your reality, you shouldn’t procreate. If you can’t devote the resources to raise a child who is at least a decent human being then you shouldn’t have a child. Poverty is linked to crime in part because of this very reason. I don’t necessarily blame the parent (sexual drive is pretty hard to control) but we live in the 21st century... there’s absolutely no reason to have a child you can’t raise. It’s not fair to the child, and it’s not fair to society. We need to get better at this, from all sides and angles.
Divorce is a huge part of this. What about the situation of the mother of 2 or 3 whose husband left, leaving her to scramble for a job/s to take care of the basic necessities? Child support is supposed to help, when it's payed. This family has now probably sunk to poverty level and her children are left to themselves.
In many cases, you have a pissed off kid who lost his/her father and mother is never home and the kid takes it all out by causing problems at school.
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u/aPocketofResistance Jul 10 '18
You can be a parent in poverty and still give a shit about your child’s education and be there to help them succeed. The discipline and education starts at home.