by Michelle Porter Sturgis Lee

Created on: January 06, 2011

Surviving poverty in America.

If you are quick to judge those in poverty to be in a negative light then maybe you should try it. You may realize you simply do not have the skill required to survive long term poverty in America.

Yes, skill. It takes a huge amount of skill to survive in poverty in America. Not only the elements or feeding yourself or family... it is learning to hide from society, deal with stress, anxiety, depression, rejection, and cruelty by others towards you, your children, husband wife who struggle in poverty along side you and the list continues.

Let us face a few serious realities.

1. It is standard, acceptable, expected, encouraged, and wrongful that people simply do not choose to take in their own family members. 

2. People die, parents and children are separated, police, social service workers, school teachers, court systems, welfare agencies, and even people many times those who work in emergency assistance programs have treated those in poverty in such a demoralizing way to attack the will they need to stay alive and move forward that many in poverty can simply not afford to risk loosing their will to survive in exchange for meal or a warm, soft place to sleep safe from police harassment for a couple hours of their life on the street and in hiding.

3. Poverty stricken people or even working homeless are never, never, never recognized for what they have and had achieved in life. Homeless parents are not viewed upon for standing by their family no matter what. In the American society they are judged as unfit neglectful parents because they just did not have enough money and resent job history and a couple thousand dollars to move into an apartment. People in society these days do not seem to care to much a lot of times of leaving their child, children, spouse etc in search of money or status increase. These people could learn a good deal from homeless families.

4. Teachers in schools even now spend much time lecturing to children on the so called importance of a not a good education but rather what a looser a child is told they will be should they end up, so to speak, with a job at Mcdonalds. With so many out of work and people trying to survive in any way they can contribute to their family. Do you honestly think it a wise idea to hurt a childs sense of security in their parents abilities with such a repulsive remark? This is a common in public school systems. As the pay rate for teachers has come up over the years and school

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