{"id":124,"date":"2018-04-29T16:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/?p=124"},"modified":"2018-04-29T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:44:04","slug":"culture-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/2018\/04\/29\/culture-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is extremely difficult for a low-income family to change their circumstance because of the \u201cculture of poverty.\u201d Because poor families \u201chave lived so long under such miserable conditions, many come to develop attitudes, practices, and self-conception that inhibit to improve their life prospects\u201d or that of their children\u201d (Shelby 8).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Children in poorer families are especially vulnerable to succumbing to these negative influences, making it increasingly more difficult for them to break the poverty cycle, keeping them in the poor sector and inhibiting their ability to become successful. Parents want what is best for their children, but because of the culture of poverty, they often are prevented from changing their circumstances. Without outside aid, children\u00a0acquire\u00a0their parents&#8217; circumstances automatically.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So from the very beginning of a child\u2019s life, because of societal and institutional inequalities that contribute to the culture of poverty, children in poorer families are ill-fated and lack the resources necessary to become successful, regardless of ability or aspiration. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is extremely difficult for a low-income family to change their circumstance because of the \u201cculture of poverty.\u201d Because poor families \u201chave lived so long under such miserable conditions, many come to develop attitudes, practices, and self-conception that inhibit to improve their life prospects\u201d or that of their children\u201d (Shelby 8). Children in poorer families <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/2018\/04\/29\/culture-of-poverty\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-problem-catagory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-childrearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}