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Poverty and Food Insecurities in Adolescence

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Poverty and Food Insecurities in Adolescence

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Food Insecurities

When a child does not get the correct amount of nutrients and calories, it can affect their growing. You need a certain amount of nutrients, calories, vitamins, etc. in order to grow at a healthy rate.

Children get less of the essentials that are needed for life because they do not have enough money to provide and that affects how the child develops.

Lead to poor diets.

Poverty

Experiencing poverty in adolescents have a higher chance of having a shorter life expectancy just because they will not develop at a healthy rate because they cannot buy the essentials.

Increases the likelihood of poor health

Chronic health conditions ex. asthma

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Poverty

Depression is a long-term effect.

Lead to poor emotional and behavioral self-control.

Delinquency.

Food Insecurity

More stress to help feed the family

Functioning poorly at school

Harder time getting along with other peers

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Food Insecurities

A child needs food to focus in school, which leads to poor school habits.

Negatively affects information processing and brain development.

Poverty

Memory is vulnerable to life in low socio-economic settings.

More likely to make poor decisions, not try in school or don’t stay in school.

More stressful things to worry about such as low family income, limited access to health care, low IQ scores, etc.

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Poverty

On average, they score two years behind standard language tests

Brain is growing and developing and it is important to have skills of language at this time

Building a strong foundation of skills must begin early so if they don’t have that background, it will affect them now in adolescents

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What race had the highest percentage of poverty in the U.S. in 2017?

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What race had the highest percentage of poverty in the U.S. in 2017?

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African American  (29%) and Hispanic (25%) Children.

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How Many Adolescents Were Living Below the Federal Poverty Line?

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How Many Adolescents Were Living Below the Federal Poverty Line?

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18% in 2014-2017

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How Many Adolescents Receive Assistance From the Feeding America Network Each Year? 

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How Many Adolescents Receive Assistance From the Feeding America Network Each Year? 

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6.7 Million.

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What is a Common Discussion for Families with Low Income?

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What is a Common Discussion for Families with Low Income?

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They often talk about daily living conditions like what they are going to be eating and how they are going to get it. This may lead children to be unprepared for discussions in school because they do not have other types of discussions.

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What Kind of Households Have a Higher Prevalence of Food Insecurity?

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What Kind of Households Have a Higher Prevalence of Food Insecurity?

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Households with children have a higher prevalence of food insecurity than those without children.

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Video

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