ild." However, the impovershed family is often a single parent family, which parent must work to support the family. Lacking the other parent, the child lacks a person who is able to take an interest in his or her activities, school or otherwise. The single working parent will come home from work very tired and without any energy to spend on being interested in the child's homework. The child becomes disadvantaged in the first way that any child has any advantage at all. The disadvantaged child does not have another adult who shows an interest in him, guides and corrects her, praises him for trying, and rebukes her for giving up.
The second problem with #1 is the possibility that the parent did not do well in school. This factor alone is shown to be the most common reason the child does not do well in school either. The parent who got little out of a public education will not be likely to encourage his or her child to go get a lot out of public education. This can, however, be remedied through counseling and adult education, though again both of these require time the working parent may not have.
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