My mother was the eldest of six children during the 70s. At this time, my family was experiencing poverty. My mother not only had the responsbility to be in charge of everyone, but she also had to get a job to help support the family with the income that my grandmother was bringing home at the time. My family grew up in low-income housing on the Southside of Chicago,IL and they had a hard time. My grandmother was very much so the Authoritarian parent, in which her word was the law, there were no questions of why, or i can't, you had to obey her or you would get into serious trouble. I believe being poor and having the responsibility to look after all my uncles and aunts put alot of stress on my mother, because she was not allowed to go outside at times because she had to look behind my aunts and uncles. While my grandmother worked to bring home the little amount of money she did, i believe she was stressed as well. The amount of stress that my mother had, made her move at the age of 16. I mother did graduate from high school and later received her cosmetology license, and she vowed to never be like my grandmother, she took several parenting classes and help her be the best mom she could be.
As i look at other countries and how poverty plays a role in their lives as well, I was very intrigued about learning about Ethopia and how they deal with poverty. About 90% of the Ethiopian population are living below poverty line with about 62% deprived of adequate schooling. People who live in Ethiopia depend on the agriculture and if a drought happens it makes it worse and allows for so many people to go hungry . Because poverty and the lack of food is so high in Ethiopia, makes for children of school age not to be to complete school and leaves the children to become apart of child labor, child trafficking, and child prostitution( Major problems facing Ethiopia today,2011).
Major problems facing Ethiopia today. (2011, September 27) Africa and the world. Retrieved from http://www.africaw.com/major-problems-facing-ethiopia-today
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Poverty can have such a negative affect on the entire family. My family was also a low income family. I can remember my parents only having enough money to take care of our basic needs. As a child I never understood why we had second hand clothes and couldn't go out to eat as much as my friends. My parents tried very hard not to let the children know the financial problems we were having. Today the problem is much worse because some children don't even have enough to eat. This is a problem that not only affects children in underdeveloped countries but right here in the US as well.
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