Children of Incarcerated Parents

Forms of Poverty
Disparate Income
Lack of income is a
principal reason for
women's risk of poverty.
Income deprivation
prevents women from
attaining resources and
converting their monetary
resources
into
socioeconomic status. Not
only does higher income
allow greater access to job
skills; obtaining more job
skills raises income as
well.
As women earn less
income than men, and
struggle to access public
benefits. They are deprived
of basic education and
health care, which
eventually becomes a
cycle to debilitate women's
ability to earn higher
income. Poverty can pass
from one generation to the next. The main reason behind this cycle of poverty is the
lower earnings of women.
Lack of Assets
According to Martha Nussbaum, one central human functional capability is being able to
hold property (both land and movable goods). In various nations, women are not full
equals under the law, which means they do not have the same property rights as men;
the rights to make a contract; or the rights of association, mobility, and religious liberty.
Assets are primarily owned by husbands, or are used for household production or
consumption, neither of which help women with loan repayments. In order to refund
their loans, women are usually required to undergo the ‘disempowering’ process of
having to work harder as wage laborers, while also encountering a growing gendered
resource divide at the domestic level.
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