By: dana E-mail: SunNSannnd@aol.com Most Americans are insulted from the poor; it is hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Poverty is something that not only effects adults, but children as well. When we think of poverty in America what is the image that comes to mind? An old dilapidated shack in southern Alabama? or a rat infested tenement house in New York City? According to the book Faces of Poverty, the author, Jill Berrick says that “Both images are correct, for poverty exists in the backwoods of Appalachia as well as in the heart of the inner city” (1). In homes across America poor parents are raising poor children. Even in our own back yard we are faced with poverty. “In Palm Beach County, more than 50 percent of single parents who have children under the age of 5 ....

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