Low Income Family

How would you react if I told you that you might not understand this essay as well as your peer will if you were from “a low-income family” and your peer was not? It would simply be an appalling and provocative conclusion. In the article by Michael Alison Chandler, a report that “children from poor families lag in cognitive development and other areas” is presented with possible resolutions to fix the disadvantage that children from low-income families suffer in areas of academic, social and overall mental strength. While many might agree that the disadvantaged nature of an impoverished home in today’s society would harm or hinder the children’s “cognitive development,” this claim is, however, flawed in its core due to the fact that a human’s …show more content…
The performance of a child or an individual as a whole is affected by a variety of factors including genetics, nutrition, culture, religious belief, philosophical points of view and environmental conditions. Of these, genetics go a particularly long way in influencing many of the capabilities of individuals. For example, the domestication of animals for food or trade favored certain traits in the reared animals. In applying this to humans, who are technically animals, these defining features through traits and abilities also exist. Some are born with the ability to be either intellectually or physically more resourceful while some have a little bit of both. Keep in mind that this excludes those with mental or physical disabilities as some of those are conditions beyond any substantially effective repair. Over the course of time, when these traits are discovered, they are enhanced through training. There are the entertainers such as singer, actors, comedians, performers; then there are athletes, who possess the mental and physical coordination and qualities to pull off incredible feats with …show more content…
Its inability to differentiate being similar from being the same makes the article to generalize that all children need a certain regimen in order to guarantee proper development. While this proposal shows true intent towards the well-being of children, its statistics and conclusions leave the reader to conclude that the report was simply meant to reiterate the common assumptions that the rich people are better than the poor. Thus, Chandler’s arguments acted more as insults rather than solutions with little to no acknowledgement of all the socioeconomic factors that affect a child’s developmental process. It also fails from an argumentative and ethic point of view; stereotyping people from low-income backgrounds and poorly generalizing the meaning of low-income or being poor. In the belief that we are all dynamic, it is quite a contradictory step to measure each other by the same means. Even twin siblings often differ in character, belief, performance in activities and intellectual capabilities as much as non-twin siblings. Just because an individual originates from a low-income background does not mean that he or she is less than what he or she should