빈곤가정의 빈곤화 과정 연구

Abstract

This study was about identifying possibility of escape from poverty or its heredity by analyzing processes of povertization including the entry to poverty, the effort to struggle against it, its growth, and long-term poverty, and exploring its patterns such as extremely depending, depending, frustrating, and hoping for the escape from it. Also, this study was to identify limits and difficulties of social supports to low-income families. The result were as follows. First, this study identified that heredity of poverty was serious in case of the type of extreme dependence, while possibility of escape from poverty was very high in the event of the type of hoping. In addition, in the case of depending and frustrating, the possibility to escape from poverty was very low as well as poverty and its heredity were so serious. Second, social supports to participants were so monolithic and ex parte. Third, standards for low-income families’ selection were too limited to satisfy their needs sufficiently. Last, children from families with low income were exposed to the heredity of poverty, because they were not able to obtain adequate supports from government or community, although they had grave difficulties associated with school maladjustment as learning performance and peer relationship, and psychological and emotional instability.