Poverty occurs when there is lack of basic needs to individuals as their earning are insufficient. Poverty often leads to inequality in a society as classes of people differentiate financially, even in this classes exists gender inequality which makes it difficult for women to earn as much as men and statistics show women being poorer than men in every age which is why people try so hard to solve both inequality and poverty. Robert rector is a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation and is known to be an expert in poverty, Rector has written over hundred articles including Understanding Poverty in the United States. Rachel Sheffield is an associate researcher and policy analyst in the DeVoS centre for religion and civil society at
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The article is makes conclusions based on data in which they assume would appeal to their target which is young men and women, it tries to convince men to have children after marriage and their children would not be poor and tells women that they won’t be able to raise children without the men in their lives. The authors assume that single mothers are incapable of providing for their children and so if the men are not part of their lives they immediately become “economic disaster”, this is a narrow minded thinking as they did not provide evidence that shows women who are initially financially secure can’t have children outside of marriage and the article also ignores the possibility that the women won’t get help from their family members who are not poor. The article might appeal to men and women who are religious as it might encourage them to get married if they want to have children as they would believe when such conservative organizations tell them their children will not be poor if they get married, what the article doesn’t recognize is that, what if both a man and a woman are poor?, also how the marriage changes their lives. The validity of the evidence presented is also in question as the article makes statements of data which cannot be validated and cites lectures by members of their own
The article is makes conclusions based on data in which they assume would appeal to their target which is young men and women, it tries to convince men to have children after marriage and their children would not be poor and tells women that they won’t be able to raise children without the men in their lives. The authors assume that single mothers are incapable of providing for their children and so if the men are not part of their lives they immediately become “economic disaster”, this is a narrow minded thinking as they did not provide evidence that shows women who are initially financially secure can’t have children outside of marriage and the article also ignores the possibility that the women won’t get help from their family members who are not poor. The article might appeal to men and women who are religious as it might encourage them to get married if they want to have children as they would believe when such conservative organizations tell them their children will not be poor if they get married, what the article doesn’t recognize is that, what if both a man and a woman are poor?, also how the marriage changes their lives. The validity of the evidence presented is also in question as the article makes statements of data which cannot be validated and cites lectures by members of their own