This is what made me cry about the case, here is this mother begging for assistance, reaching out for help and no one responds. Mental health services have been lacking, and the eventuality that happened is just horrible. This is due, in part, to the fact that poverty is closely linked to a number of negative outcomes for children. Family poverty threatens a child's development in a multitude of ways. The more profound and extended the poverty, the higher the likelihood of long lasting and extensive impact.
Poor children are more likely to be hospitalized and to experience low quality medical care.
For these families, childcare is of poor quality and children are more likely to attend substandard schools. In addition, the daily effects of hunger and malnutrition as well as high levels of interpersonal domestic conflict in the home are exacerbated by exposure to violence and to environmental toxins in the neighborhood. In Oakland County, for families with children from birth to age four, there was a 40 percent increase in poverty. In Macomb County, also part of the Detroit metropolitan area, the poverty rate increased 56 percent for young children and 27 percent for children age 5 to 17. Oakland County as a whole has one of the highest incomes in the country.