Blog 10 Kilwer

                                                                               Kristof Article Blog #3

This article was interesting to read. It mentioned a lot of different topics such as how parent’s incomes matter to their future children’s incomes. Which I agree to this article but then I don’t. I know families who have kids and their income are better than what their parent’s income was. It also talks about a dead man named Rick and talked about how his life was an uphill struggle from birth. He was smart, talented, and hard working. He died of a heart disease. The writer of the article went to see him the day before he died. The guy saw him struggling walking and saw how much he was in pain. Which I know what it’s like to see a man at age 65 struggling to walk and living in pain. My grandpa his last few months that he lived he was in pain and struggled to walk. I was only a little child even at the time to see this and remember it all. Rick however raised himself along with 3 other siblings, because his mom died and his dad was a drunk. Going to school was important to Rick because it helped him to live a better life. However Rick was punished by the principal and he dropped out in 10^th grade. I feel like if the principal actually talked to Rick and realized that Rick was probably busy with his other siblings and trying to survive instead of going to school. He did get a job that seemed to be a good job for not graduating high school. He did live a tough life he was married twice and divorced twice. He raised his children as a single dad. Which he probably then was reminded by his childhood that he raised his siblings basically all by himself. His phone only worked when he had enough money to pay bills. It seemed to me that he can keep friendships and was loyal to everyone around him. Which is very important in friendship. I feel like if he didn’t have good friends, children, or siblings around him that he would have just killed himself even sooner. I think that Rick made the dumbest mistake ever by paying his ex-wife’s car to get it back. Maybe she’s the mother for your children. Maybe you’re still a kind hearted man. But I personally think that your own health is more important than getting your exes car back into her own driveway. Maybe he should have paid money to get his medicine first then gave the remaining money he had left to her.

            Lastly the article talked about poverty children. I often think about how often children are hugged, kissed, or loved in a poverty home. I work at a daycare and some children there live in poverty. I know for a fact that I am some of the children’s first hug in the morning. You can just tell. They don’t even care that their parents just left. If you come from a poverty home there is more chance of getting beaten because the parents are angry and they have no patience at all for their child. In a poverty home sometimes the kids live with infections that can’t even be taken care of. One because they have no money or two, because they don’t care that their child has a yeast infection or an ear infection or whatever.

            I think it’s awful that poverty is increasing more and more as the years go on. As the years go on it’s getting harder and harder for people to find jobs, which that can lead to families living in poverty. These days if you want a really good job, you can’t really find one without having to attend college which the price of that is going up and up as years go on too.