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(PDF) Parenting in low-income families

   

Added on  2021-04-24

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Sufferings of Low income familyThis essay throws light on life of families who have low income and what are the burdens on parents to overcome the circumstances. This in turn increases level of stress in thefamily. Lifestyle of families having low income is difficult as they have fairly low mortgage and struggling to meet all the necessities. Even after working whole day long, these families are going through hardships and struggle to meet the basic needs and keep a balance to run into the social expectations. One of the key factors is: stability (Aveyard,2014). Some are suffering from insecurity of housing benefits, or unstable jobs, or lack of basic amenities. Butstill these problems they fall back and support all the extended family needs. Income of a one family varies from other family, certain families have low income due to that reason they go through various consequences (Cameron, Lart, Bostock and Coomber, 2014). Like serving poor nutrition to family members, poor living standards, no proper medical care facilities and no options to grow. It is true that the rate of separation or divorce is related to income of the family as the pressure of earning or not living a favourable life effects the growth of the family.Parents go through hardships to full fill every day needs of their children’s. Having a low income of the family makes it difficult to survive and future effects family relations (Jiang, Ekono and Skinner,2016). Parents ignore their basic necessities of life by prioritising their children’s needs by serving them in a better way. For this parents take strain by neglecting their own diet or comprising in their needs. It also harms the health of family members as they don’t have food to eat and many other factors (Crouter and Booth, 2014). Especially parents think about their children for better education and upliftment, this leads to development of pressure. Because of that, children of low family incomes compromise on their educational profile by going to a below average college where the fee is less, or just doing graduation and not planning for future studies (Hardy, Smeeding and Ziliak, 2018).

They are more probable to drop out of college or school as even parents are not well educatedwhich lead to little enrichment towards education. According to national health survey it was concluded that family with low income rarely visits doctors for daily treatmentNot only parents but also for children’s of families of low income suffer injustice in the society. As the child has very little chance to study in a well reputed institute, difficult to livea healthy life without any health care issues, no parental support as mother and father are mostly busy working somewhere (Goodell, et. al, 2017). This is the reason children belonging to poor families are prone to mental health problems, due to lower achievements and less physical functionality. Thus also leads to more emotional disorders. Also children of low income families have symptoms of poor mental health then the children of higher-income families.Other than that, root cause of crime is because of low income of some families, as they get indulged in bad activities or wrong way to earn medium. For resolving all these issues policies are designed by providing stable jobs to the family members; by offering themearnings so that they can rely on them (Jiang Granja and Koball,2017). They also need some security by providing social housing facilities and low interest loans Government has escalated many strategies to balance the outcomes of children’s growth and economic status of family. Basic focus is to end the line of poverty in the society. Government has started many policies to reduce the effects and disabilities of these families. They have also introduced mandatory day care centres and family day-care homes in more than 33 States, these authorities provide proactive facilities to these families (Hughes, et. al, 2015). Development is a two way process, it is not only dependent upon the government but the people also. It’s how well the people appreciate a cause taken by the government.

Government is concerned about the social welfare of the society (Barth, 2017). Government have undertaken certain policies like:Providing Empowerment - It helps in improving sustainable living standards of the citizenas well as providing opportunities for betterment. Government has developed various social protection systems for progressive development by providing empowerment to the people of families whose income are low (Hawkes, et. al,2015). Especially programs are launched for empowering women’s and which also contributes in increasing literacy rate of the country.Organising public programs- The aim of government is to generate employment for theunemployed workers by launching various programs design varies with the country’ssituation and specific goals (Hawkes, et. al,2015). Some programs are intended to helphouseholds deal with aggregate shocks that affect large segments of the population, such asmacroeconomic shocks, natural disasters, and seasonal shocks. Others are aimed at reducinglong-term poverty or helping households cope with idiosyncratic shocks.Social policy- Special provisions are available for the people with low income, so thatsufficient access can be used like medical services, as these are specially designed to breakthe hardships of low income family (Collinson, Ellen and Ludwig,2015).Health Care Programs- Government has launched many health strategy that is used toimprove the health conditions of people and communities As the world is growing rapidlyand lifestyle of people have changed hence health services are altered, advances technologyare used by government in the vision of ensuring better health services to families who havelow source of income (Collinson, Ellen and Ludwig,2015). It focuses on changing targets andhealth priorities by creating innovative opportunitiesEducational facilities- In the competitive world where education is being comprised due to low income of the family, government as launched many programs by granting educational loans at low interest rate, providing opportunities for higher education as well as offering freeeducation till certain level (Ziliak, 2015).

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