Everyday a child collapses in tears because they’re starving, living in a house without anything to eat. They lay there silently crying to themselves, wondering why this is happening to them. What have they done to deserve this? Poverty not only creates physical problems; it goes deeper and scars in places that are not seen. Poverty can affect a kid physically and mentally. Living with this is hard for a young child to deal with because it’s harder for them to understand. They don’t understand why this is happening to them. They do not understand that their mother or father cannot feed them tonight, or could not go out and get them something to eat. I know this because when I was younger I had to go to sleep many nights without eating. I was a child who lived in poverty. It is something that is hard to deal with; there are scars that cannot be seen because it’s not physical, but mental. The scar of living in poverty as a young child still affects me now as a young adult.

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