These children’s medical needs go without treatment due to not having health care, and they don’t have access to academic tutors or other academic opportunities like children in middle or high class society have. The obstacles placed before children in poverty hold them back from moving forward in life, crippling them, paralyzing them, and creating an overwhelming atmosphere. An unhealthy home environment along with not being ready for school are two key factors that dictate negative future outcomes for children growing up in poverty. These two set-backs cause poor life choices leading to dropping out of school, teen pregnancy, tobacco use, drug and alcohol use, unemployment and a adult life in poverty themselves. They grow up repeating the
