“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.” IfsGivingMayChildrenLittlesHelpingProblemAbleEnergyParentResponsibilityPovertyEnvironmentRightsModernDevelopmentDifficultyComplexityUpbringingSecured Author:Suzanne La Follette
“Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs.” NeedsChildrenLittlesParentCommunityPovertySupportEconomicBabyDemandDifficultyMeetingsNeighborInsecuritySevereStressedDisturbedRespondingBasic Needs Author:Sheila Kamerman
“In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.” WellsHeartFactsProblemHateConsciousnessPovertyStruggleSourceEgoDiseaseDifficultyWell BeingEmanateDivisiveness Author:Wayne Dyer
“[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.” ThinkingKnowsMadeFactsSidesClassPovertyImaginePositionConscienceDifficultyWorking ClassBoth SidesComprehending Author:Catherine Camus
“Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.” PeopleSeemsIndividualPovertyDifficultyWorkersObviousDebtHarmUnemployed Author:James Surowiecki
“Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.” GivingHeartHelpingShowsJesusChristChristianityLordPovertyTeachGraceSorrowJesus ChristCrossesGive MeDifficultyMovedAddCharityDeedsStrangerActivePityGrievingCompassionateWoeOur LordWidowsOrphanLord Jesus ChristAlleviateOur Lord Jesus Christ Author:Johann Arndt
“We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.” IfsGivingFacesJoyJesusChallengesJusticeEffortPovertyStruggleOur LivesDoorsShareSorrowDifficultyInfiniteConversionFaithfulHolinessDistressPersecutionHumiliationPeace And JoyJoys And SorrowsLife ChallengesInfinite Love Book:The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation