With the poverty levels constantly rising in today’s society, the number of youth affected by the poverty has substantially increased, in the last twenty years by an approximate fifty percent. In the United States alone statistics have shown that there are at least nine million youth living in poverty. For the youth and children living within the high poverty areas, hunger, drugs and violence are usually viewed as their reality since they are seen on a daily basis.

Analysis shows that youth in such areas often undergo psychological trauma mainly due to the violence and other poverty related effects mainly due to the frontal lobe over stimulation. The lobe mainly controls reactions to emotional stimulus, instincts and is the main tool in a Childs processing. There is evidence that shows that the Childs brain begins to change and adopt as the excess violence over stimulate their brain. This effect causes the youth to become more accommodating towards the violent tendencies and thus view it as something common to them.

The youth as time progress become indifferent and are not affected by their deteriorated environment. This biological adaptation to violence in youth is a big cause for concern since it forms the balance that allows a child to survive. This helps explain why such youth are less likely to succeed in jobs, schools, or other vital aspects of development (Moore, 2005).

Everything in a youth’s life is affected by poverty, from their chances of attaining education to even their living standards. Poverty takes advantage of the most vulnerable people, since it does not discriminate. The country needs to take the essential precautions for avoiding homelessness and poverty. Even the bible in is against poverty and strongly advocates for protection of the poor as shown in acts 140: 12 (World vision, 2003).

Reference

Moore, K. (2005). Thinking about youth poverty through the lenses of chronic poverty, life-            course poverty and intergenerational poverty. Chronic poverty research centre (CPRC).

World vision (2003) what God thinks on poverty .Psalms 140:12. New international version