Alleviating the force of poverty on urban poor children
Titel:
Alleviating the force of poverty on urban poor children
Auteur:
Jones-Wilson, Faustine C.
Verschenen in:
Early child development and care
Paginering:
Jaargang 73 (1991) nr. 1 pagina's 103-120
Jaar:
1991
Inhoud:
This pluralistic, highly advantaged society, with an ethnically diverse and class-divided population, has both moral and economic obligations to assist urban poor children to overcome the adverse conditions of their life circumstances. A network of socially-conscious child advocates is needed to help poor children, particularly those of color, to overcome the statistical odds against them. At bottom these advocates must be humanists who subscribe to the human capital concept and who apply it to our children. A national Urban Marshall Plan is needed, social policy designed to ameliorate the substandard condition of the poor. It must include the institution and maintenance of realistic policies and programs of effective schooling for poor children and their families. Schooling is their lifeline to the 21st century. The urban poor, in turn, have a responsibility to accept and use wisely the assistance offered them. Thus obligation is mutual and reciprocal between society and its urban poor, though the greater burden is on the society to make it possible for urban poor children to surmount adverse conditions under which they find themselves due to “accidents of birth” and the transformation of our economy.
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