Children of Incarcerated Parents

Sexual Violence
A form of sexual violence on the rise in the United States is Human Trafficking. Poverty
can lead to increased trafficking due to more people on the streets. Women who are
impoverished, foreign, socially deprived, or at other disadvantages are more susceptible
to being recruited into trafficking. Many laws stated in Kelsey Tumiel’s dissertation, have
recently been made to try to combat the phenomenon, but it is predicted that human
trafficking will surpass illegal drug trafficking amounts in the US. Women that are victims
of these sexual violence acts have a difficult time escaping the life due to abuse of
power, organized crime, and insufficient laws to protect them. There are more people
current enslaved in trafficking than there were during the African slave trade. “Branding”
of human trafficking brings awareness to the issue claims Tam Mai, the author. This
allows for public assertion and intervention. A claim made in Tam Mai's article states
that by reducing poverty, thus may lead to a decrease in trafficking from the streets.
Education
A major key to reducing "the feminization of poverty" is to emphasize the importance of
higher education. Countries with strong gender discrimination and social hierarchies
limit women's access to basic education. Even within the household, girls' education is
often sacrificed to allow male siblings to attend school. An important aspect of
capabilities is the freedom to make informed choices and have opportunities to achieve
goals, and a basic requirement to actively use resources and information is basic
education. This enables not only women to reduce household poverty, but as well
increases children's chances of education, and enhances maternal health and freedom
of movement.
Climate Change
Since poverty and climate change are closely linked, the poorest and most
disadvantaged groups often depend on climate-sensitive livelihoods like agriculture,
which makes them disproportionately vulnerable to climate change. These groups lack
the resources required to weather severe climatic effects like better houses and
drought-resistant crops.
This diminished adaptive capacity makes them even more vulnerable, pushing them to
take part in unsustainable environmental practices such as deforestation in order to
maintain their well-being. The extent to which people are impacted by climate change is
partially a function of their social status, power, poverty, and access to and control over
resources. Women are more vulnerable to the influences of climate change since they
make up the bulk of the world’s poor and are more dependent for their livelihood on
natural resources that are threatened by climate change. Limited mobility combined with
unequal access to resources and to decision-making processes places women in rural
areas in a position where they are disproportionately affected by climate change.
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