Blog #9

The relationship between working poor women’s conditions and children in poverty goes hand in hand. Children are in poverty because of the status of the woman who brought them into the world. If their mother’s are poor, then the child is poor and therefore they are born into poverty. I am not saying it is the mother’s fault, but that is how it goes; if your parents are in poverty and you are a child, then you are in poverty as well. Not only do these working poor women have to look after themselves, they have to take care of a child or children as well, therefore making everything that much more difficult. The poor working women can only do so much for her children because she cannot even support herself. Looking at charts from the National Center for Children in Poverty just goes to show that the working poor women’s conditions affect the children in poverty. Characteristic of officially poor children in American are the same as working poor women, a majority are black, Latino and American Indian and Asian; they are minorities. When you are a child, having immigrant parents increases the chances of being poor and being a working poor women and an immigrant increases your chances of being poor as well. Another thing you see in the charts is that poverty rates are highest for young children and that is believed to be true because parents of young children do not earn as much as parents of older children because they have less job experience and are younger. There are a lot of younger poor women out there as well. Hardships that working poor women and children in poverty experience are the same too, they both experience food insecurity, affordable, decent housing, and lack of health insurance. They also both stress about what is going to happen next.