Friday, August 16, 2013

Impacts on Early Emotional Development

   I have to admit, the UNISEF website was full of overwhelming information and the one thing that was apparent in many of the topics I read was the number of children living in poverty and this definitely affects the emotional development of children. This lead to further my investigation on children and poverty as it has in the past courses I have taken through Walden University as well. After reading The Crisis of Childhood Poverty it validated the truth about how poverty can lead to lifelong learning disabilities, can be passed on from generation to generation, and can lead to lifelong emotional and physical health issues, http://www.childhoodpoverty.org. I wanted to learn more about how poverty can lead to these issues and one resource I came across was Theories of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs in Community Development http://www.rupri.org/Forms/WP06-05.pdf. This article has some very interesting theories about all of the above consequences of poverty. This paper states that most rural community development efforts is to relieve causes or symptoms of poverty, it makes a difference to which theory of poverty is believed to be responsible for the problem being addressed. This paper explore five competing theories,
  1. Individual deficiencies-
  2. Cultural belief systems that support subcultures in poverty
  3. Political-economical distortions
  4. Geographical disparities
  5. Cumulative and circumstantial origins
This paper helps to understand the theories and shows how they shape different community development practices that address sources of poverty more effectively than comparing to one single theory. This resource also explores the relationship between individuals and their community in placing people in poverty, keeping them there, and potentially getting them out. This resource seems to support that idea that individuals are shaped by their community, and communities are a consequence shaped by their individual members.

Resources

Bradshaw, T. Rural Poverty Research Center. Theories of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs in Community Development, retrieved from, http://www.rupri.org/Forms/WP06-05.pdf, August 15, 2013.

CHIP-Knowledge of Tackeling Childhood Poverty. The Crisis of Childhood Poverty, Retrived from http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/, August 15, 2013.


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3 comments:

  1. Carolina Olza-KelshAugust 16, 2013 at 6:14 PM

    The governments have to be on board, and unless it's a priority there is little the UNICEF can do as an organization. Having said that, they have done amazing work in providing help for children, especially their work about child mortality.

    Carolina

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  2. AnonymousAugust 18, 2013 at 1:39 AM

    "This resource seems to support that idea that individuals are shaped by their community, and communities are a consequence shaped by their individual members."
    That's quite the paradigm. That is the way of small towns as well, you have to fight your way out.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  3. UnknownAugust 24, 2013 at 11:20 PM

    Tammy, I too am always amazed at the amount of information on the UNICEF website. It is overwhelming. I feel it is so easy to get caught up in our own existence that we tend to forget how big the world really is and the challenges that children face in their daily lives. I think this assignment has inspired me to stay connected with the worldly issues facing children, as well as whats going on in my back yard.

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