Impact of Homelessness and Poverty on Children

This article discusses the impact of homelessness and poverty on children's quality of life. It covers the causes of poverty and homelessness, such as lack of education, unemployment, and orphanism, and provides solutions like creating affordable housing, increasing minimum wages, and government support for education. The article emphasizes the importance of improving children's quality of life by reducing the impact of poverty and homelessness.

Impact of homelessness and Poverty on children
INTRODUCTION
Homelessness and poverty plays an important role on Children's quality of life. There is high impact of poverty and homelessness on
every children which impact their future and their lifestyle. There are various causes which may include orphanism, unemployment
and lack of education that can lead to to create situation of poverty and homelessness (Manfra, 2019). There is also some solutions
like a creating truly affordable housing increasing minimum wages and getting support by the government through providing access
to education can help children positively.
Lack of education is also a cuase of homelessness and poverty within children. There many children are
not able to go to pre-school or school which create the lack of education within them. This is the first
step where children can build their future more effectively. But due to poverty, they are unable to get
education which resist them to elaborate their mind and knowledge which can help them to improve
their quality of life by using and improving their skills for employment. Lack of education also resist
them to learn various lifestyle things that can help to improve their quality of life in minimum wages.
Unemployment can play an important role where employed people have child that are unable to get
access to better nutritional food and create a negative impact on their health. There is also various
difficulty they face due to poverty. They are not able to to get their meal at a time that also impacts their
lifestyle and health (Embleton et al., 2020).
There are various causes and solution which can lead to create a such situation where children get
homeless and face poverty This cause may include lack of education and employment and orphanage
(UMEOBIKA and OBIORAH, 2020).
CONCLUSION
From above, it can be concluded that there is high impact of homelessness and poverty on
Children's life. This includes various causes like unemployment, lack of education and orphanism which
also provide some solution like getting support from government and others that can help me to reduce
the impact and help children to live quality of life.
Creating truly affordable housing can enable children who are facing poverty and homelessness can
get home at an affordable price (Jackson et al., 2020). Many parents are facing poverty but due to
higher cost of house they are not able to afford it for the children. So, it can allow people to get house
that can help to improve their quality of life.
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Orphan children may rare get proper education and better quality of food. They are also not having their
home and face poverty (Darbeda et al., 2018). This is one of the main cause that can lead to create a
high impact on individual lifestyle. Orphan children, they are not having any home and any source of
income that force them to the line of poverty.
CAUSE
Government can support Orphan children that can enable them to get access to education. This can be
helpful and enable them to improve their quality of life by using their skills and knowledge to live life
effectively.
SOLUTION
Increasing the minimum wages can help people to increase the income that can enable them to spend
more on their basic needs. It can help to fulfill their children's basic need that can help them to get
access to healthcare premises and education. This can enable them to improve quality of life (Marcal,
K.E., 2018).