Poverty contributes to mental disturbance

Researchers have revealed that young children raised in poverty-stricken families are likely to have mental challenges and this may affect them later in life.

"The lowest levels of antisocial behaviour are found in children whose parents start and stay in the highest income bracket while their children grow up," says Dr Lisa Strohschein, author of the study, and sociologist at the University of Alberta, a public research university in Canada. While the findings show that the effects of low income at an early age on antisocial behavioural conduct such as bullying, being cruel, breaking things, cheating or telling lies, persist as kids get older, depression seems to have the opposite effect.