Bshs 345 - Reflective Paper

Reflective Paper

BSHS/345

Suzanne Reed

Professor: Dr. Tristram Jones

Introduction

        There are so many factors that can happen to anyone that encounters difficulty in life.  Certain issues can occur to special populations, how they affect the clients is what matters in these reflections of this paper.  The particular groups that are going to be encountered in this reflection are generational poverty, older adults, and women.

Complex factors involved in overcoming generational poverty

        Generational poverty is a serious issue among some of the population.  When a student graduates high school impending the thought of college they might run into a multitude of different issues.  How to pay for college is a major situation, sometimes families are financially able to send their child to school, but in some occasions not.  In this scenario, the young adult must gather on how they are going to live and somehow go to college.  Some young adults make rational decisions, and others make devastating financial decisions that put themselves into a severe hardship, leading to generational poverty.  

        The issue of social support plaques quite a few young women and men when they walk out into society without a plan of action.  The lack of emotional, tangible, informational, positive and negative support can cause horrible life altering decisions among this class of society (UOP, 2011).  By making decisions to go to school, the young adult then leads to issues of poverty due to large loans from schooling and credit challenges from taking on too much-unsecured debt to pay to survive.  When this generation, making the decision to go to school can be a lifelong issue, when the young adult makes bad calls on how to financially support themselves it can cause greater issues in later life.  The impact on their future, especially when they decide to settle down after they graduate from college, leading to high payments to pay back all the credit cards and loans they took out while in school.  

        There are also personal barriers that can cause issues of generational poverty.  The stress of dealing with everyday situations, the low self-esteem from not being where they would want to be at that time in life, which can lead to instances of isolation are all factors that can happen in generational poverty (UOP, 2011).  The young adult then goes on to make so many bad decision; they then make a decision to show that they have inadequate parenting competence (UOP, 2011).   Generational poverty is mostly caused by some matters that have been taught to the youth by the parents, the bad decisions, and not understanding the backlash of what can happen due to the decisions, and how the person in society manages with the issues, knowing the circumstances and how to remedy the situation is crucial.