ts did not work due to disability or filling the role of caretaker in the family.
             The work entitled: "How the Physiological Effects of Poverty on Young Children Takes Its Toll on Health" states that it has been long acknowledged among scientists that those who live in poverty have "poorer health and shorter life spans than the more affluent." (Children's Health, 2007) Additionally stated is that key mechanisms have been identified in the research of Cornell Institute researchers that explain "how low socioeconomic status takes its toll on health." (Children's Health, 2007) Poverty results in the ability of the individual's body in the handling of demands that are environmental in nature.
             Specifically stated is: These muted responses of stress regulatory mechanisms, which are part of the cardiovascular system, not only compromise the ability of the adolescents' bodies to respond to such stressors as noise, poor housing and family turmoil but also indicate they are suffering from more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than other young people. researchers assessed the neuroendocrine and cardiovascular markers of stress regulatory systems by measuring overnight levels of a stress hormone (cortisol) and blood pressure reactivity and recovery after an acute stressor (being asked unexpectedly to do mental math problems) in 217 low- and middle-income white adolescents -- at age 9 and then again at age 13 -- in rural areas of upstate New York. They assessed cumulative physical and social risk exposure by measuring crowding, noise and housing quality in conjunction with maternal and youth reports of family turmoil, youth separation from family and exposure to violence." (Pytell, 2007; as cited in Medical News Today, 2007)
             The impact of social exclusion due to poverty is focused upon in a report entitled: "Exclusive countryside? Social inclusion and re...