Foundation argues how the food stamps causes up to 43 percent increase of birth

illegitimacy within a state. Being raised as a single parent child has many negative effects
in the child, the risk are the teen will go through sexual activity as a teen, be a criminal, and
have emotional problems. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/09/poverty-andthe-social-welfare-state-in-the-united-states-and-other-nations
POVERTY AND HUNGER
The major difficulties for the children in America are the poverty, hunger, and the
health issues all this bring to them. The Humanium website argues At the end of 2010, the
US Department of Agriculture reported that about one in four children suffered
from hunger in the United States. http://www.humanium.org/en/united-states-of-america/
According to the American Psychological Association website it says Poverty is linked
with negative conditions such as substandard housing, homelessness, inadequate nutrition
and food insecurity, inadequate child care, lack of access to health care, unsafe
neighborhoods, and under resourced schools which adversely impact our nations children.
http://www.apa.org/pi/families/poverty.aspx Once a child is living in poverty he is link to
live with all the consequences poverty brings. According to the Humanium website they
state Poverty has a wide-ranging impact on childrens lives, as poor children are usually in
worse health and have fewer opportunities to attend higher education.
http://www.humanium.org/en/united-states-of-america/ America is in a very difficult
situation and it is believed to be in the first places to be in the worst situations. According to
the Washington Post it states that the U.S. is among the worst in child poverty, Overall,
24.2 million U.S. children were living in poverty in 2012, reflecting an increase of 1.7
million children since 2008.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/29/child-poverty-in-the-u-sis-among-the-worst-in-the-developed-world/
CHILD ABUSE
Children in America are suffering each
time from abuse. According to the Humanium
website it is stated that Each year in the
United States, more than 3 million cases of child abuse are reported.
http://www.humanium.org/en/united-states-of-america/ All this cases involve violence
within the children and as well as sexually abuse. An estimated one thousand children per
year die as a result of violence or neglect in the US. Most of the time, they are younger than
4 years old. http://www.humanium.org/en/united-states-of-america/
WELFARE BY RACE IN AMERICA
The welfare for the children in America is different for each type of race. Some of
the races suffer even more than the other ones, the children who pass through a more
traumatic situation are the black and Hispanic children. According to the USNEWS website
The child maltreatment rate (which signifies abuse or neglect of a child) was 14.2 per
1,000

black

children

and

per

1,000 for

white

children.http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/28/us-education-stillseparate-and-unequal.

Both Hispanic and African Americans suffer almost the same

problems in the children; both are neglected with the society and face even more
difficulties.
CONCLUSION

Americas government needs to start focusing more in the children. Children are
going through many difficult situations. Some of them might be going through poverty,
others are victim of abuse, both violently and sexually, and others suffer from this because
their race. These children are debating either to continue fighting against these situations or
just give up. Many of the children tend to live in the environment of depending in the
government and end up living in a bad situation because of the influence they are living
with.

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