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Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty

Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty. Chapter 4 Characteristics of Generational Poverty Christian Miller. Generational Poverty Introduction. Poverty of two or more consecutive generations

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Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty

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  1. Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty Chapter 4 Characteristics of Generational Poverty Christian Miller

  2. Generational PovertyIntroduction • Poverty of two or more consecutive generations • Unlike situational poverty, those in generational poverty often do not have tools to alleviate poverty’s stresses (formal register, prioritized education, e.g.)

  3. Generational Poverty Family Structure • Payne believes that the family structure of generational poverty always is matriarchal, centering on the mother • Women often have many marriages, and in those marriages men and women tend towards a cycle of fighting, fleeing, and returning, according to Payne

  4. Generational Poverty Things to consider • How is this information helpful? • How is it harmful? • What is the purpose of school to a child from generational poverty? To a parent? • What is the purpose of school to a teacher of a child from generational poverty? • Which is correct?

  5. Generational PovertyConclusion • Tucked away in a bullet on the last page of the chapter is “Being in poverty is rarely about a lack of intelligence or ability.” • Does this infer a lack of “the old college try?” • Does it address systems of oppression? • It does neither. Christian suggests you empathize with each child and parent until you aren’t comfortable to decide what the answers are.

  6. “To be of use”by Marge Piercy The people I love the bestjump into work head firstwithout dallying in the shallowsand swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.They seem to become natives of that element,the black sleek heads of sealsbouncing like half-submerged balls.I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,who do what has to be done, again and again.I want to be with people who submergein the task, who go into the fields to harvestand work in a row and pass the bags along,who are not parlor generals and field desertersbut move in a common rhythmwhen the food must come in or the fire be put out.The work of the world is common as mud.Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.But the thing worth doing well donehas a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museumsbut you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carryand a person for work that is real. The pitcher cries for water to carryand a person for work that is real.

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