spects at all. Her life in the homeless center is part of this culture of poverty. Many people lack the skills to succeed in our society today, and often they become accustomed to accepting this situation, becoming socialized to welfare and government programs and lacking the will to change their lives. Holly lost her place in the homeless center because she wanted her new husband to live with her, and this can be seen as evidence that she has been socialized to a culture of poverty, seeing her family structure as something that should be maintained in the shelter when the shelter was not created for that purpose. During the rest of her pregnancy, she lived in seven different centers, and when the child was born she was living in a center with no heat and no refrigeration. She was merely moving through the system from one formal organization to another. All authority for her was vested in these public centers. Some days after her son was born, he contracted a viral infection which eventually led to blindness, and finally
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