Poverty Bringing Stress to Families

There are article almost every single day speaking about the financial issues families face. The hardest part as a parent has to be by far the fear of disappointing their children and not being able to provide for them. Within the Chicago Tribune, many articles popped up speaking about the 2.6 million Americans that had slipped into poverty in the last year. The article i chose was Poverty's Damaging Legacy. This article does not focus just on the fact a poor mother was sent to a shelter with her 5 children, but it explains that once this mother does find a way back on her feet, the children are still greatly impacted and troubled by their lives being temporary stripped from them. The mother of these 5 children in the article was dealing with the new transformation of losing her job and needed to find one quickly. She had no options and was sent to a shelter with the time she spent jobless. If that wasn't bad enough, her children began to run away and had doubts in her. She felt she had let her children doen for something that was completely out of her control.