Abraham Maslow Strengths

A theory that is relevant to this theme is Abraham Maslow. Maslow theory is based on the hierarchy of needs. Children need to meet the needs at the bottom of the pyramid before they can have the needs further on up the pyramid to be met. However children who are living in poverty have lack of equipment, safety and the ability to maintain good help because they don’t have the money or facilities that someone who is not living in poverty has so they won’t be thinking of anything other than their basic needs.
There are both strengths and weaknesses on Maslow’s theory based on poverty. Some of the strengths could be that the pyramid has a set guidance to parents of the children to allow them to have the knowledge of the order the child should progress and what stage the child is on to carry out activities of such to benefit the child and help them reach the next step on the pyramid to try and help the child progress at a correct pace. However a weakness of Maslow’s theory could be that the children who are living in poverty could be disadvantaged in educational settings and think that they won’t achieve or get as …show more content…
Although I think that going into poverty after living a life not being into poverty can have a more negative impact on children because they once had everything and suddenly went to having nothing and the sudden financial state could be too complex for children to understand at a young age.
Poverty can affect children’s health for the reason that people who are living in poverty have lack of transport which means that the children may not be able to get to hospital appointments which could also have a negative effect on children’s educational level because they could be too ill to attend school or they may not have the ability to go to school without