Blog #9

The relationship between working poor women’s conditions and children living in poverty are similar. Children who are currently living in poverty were most likely brought into that poverty because their mother lived in a poor neighborhood too. There could be a possibility that many women had their children at a young age and had no choice but to raise their child in a poor community. The poverty stricken mothers are working to support their child as best they could and the child can’t do anything to help their mother get out of the struggle they are living now. It is not always the mother’s fault either because many of them get left behind when the fathers go to jail or the father is in no shape to help out with the expenses the children need. It also becomes very hard for a mother to hold a stable job or even get a good paying job at all because of the area she is living it. From the charts I find that the statistics show that the younger the child the higher the poverty the child will be in. This happens because when the child is at its youngest point their mother is unlikely to have work experience and all they will be able to get is minimum wage at the lowest position. As the women gets older and her child gets older she will be able to obtain more working experience and knowledge in her job field, which will provide the family with a better living situation. These women are trying to better their families and hope that they will be able to get out of their living situation as soon as they can. If the mothers are not able to at least they will get their child out by trying to give them the best education to further themselves.