While dividing the poor into groups by age or whether mothers and fathers
are present does not make sense, there is another way to categorize those in
poverty....those who are choosing to be in poverty through their behavioral
choices and those who are doing all they can to get out of poverty. When
viewed like this, it truly does become important to consider WHO is in
poverty, because it guides approaches to help them help themselves to get
out. It helps identify the contributing factors to their plight since there
are so many yet which apply becomes quite individualized depending on the
person, their environment, their history, their attitude, their education,
etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chrystal Ocean" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [SDOH] Reflections on child & family poverty
> I'm with Graeme on this issue, who argues against grouping people who live
> in poverty into different categories.
>
> When this is done, there emerges a distinction between the deserving and
> undeserving poor, those whose poverty matters and, by stint of being
> excluded or left uncategorized, those whose poverty doesn't - in which
> case,
> it isn't POVERTY that becomes the issue but WHO is in poverty.
>
> Those in poverty all share something in common: poverty. What's the point
> of
> dividing them into seniors, children, youth, 'families' (is a household of
> one a family?), unless it's to study them or separate the wheat from the
> chaff?
>
> The list in one post of the kinds of organizations that work with Campaign
> 2000 (recent immigrants, people with disAbilities, Aboriginal people)
> doesn't include organizations that only represent, say, people with
> disAbility X or immigrants from country P or certain first nations people
> and not others.
>
> There may be circumstances in which it makes sense to divide a larger
> group
> of people into a smaller one, if the issue has to do with the people, not
> the systemically-caused conditions that they confront. The people who live
> in poverty shouldn't be the focus; the systemic causes of poverty should.
>
> Ocean, WISE Coordinator.
> http://www.wise-bc.org/
>
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