Children: Financial Burden or Means to Identity

Compared with non-poor people, the poor are more likely to have children before getting married. The etiology trials of differences in behavior patterns between the poor and non-poor in birthrate and marriage include numerous structural and cultural factors. Conservatives believe that such chronological behavioral differences are the result of lack of cognition in poor communities. However, qualitative research suggests that attitude towards the importance of marriage is not a factor in these behaviors, and many poor young mothers are still planning to get married (Edin and Kafaais, 2005).

Minority children, young people, and families often have negative social identity. This is exacerbated by research and intervention based on misrepresentations, labels and classifications that continue to maintain minority inequality. In the new century, we must understand and support families by providing adaptive constructive strategies. Ecological methods can effectively lead to research, outreach, and intervention, while avoiding classification, labeling and focusing on negative social identity.

The argument in this paper is that the social identity formed by many of our minority children, young people, and families is the result of being identified as a negatively defined member of a social group . Race is conceptualized as having a common origin or culture that transfers from one generation to another. Human ethnic identity is based on mixed language, religion, ethnicity and / or ancestry (Yinger, 1985). The concept of a minority is a sociological term that refers to a dominant position or power relationship. Minorities are said to have inequality or limited power in society (Mindel, Habenstein, & Wright, 1988). Members of ethnic minority groups are individually selected from cultural or physical differences from the predominant group, marked inequality and dealt with, inequality and access restrictions are on the dimension of social identity .

Through modern history, people have been assigned identities as a means of distinguishing one group from another, and more importantly as a means of domination, depending on race. Mainstream culture supports minorities as a means to separate them, weaken their identity, and maintain control over them. Usually, this distinction is based only on the color of the skin. Through this mechanism of assigning identities, race has become a political weapon for most people. There are some restrictions on suppressed groups.