As we all know the technology, work power, human resource, capital and the key to development in all the areas of live no matter what it may be the most essential part is to be played by the children of today. As these children of today will become the scientists, leader, manger, officials and representatives of future world. The basic question in every body’s mind is are we grooming our children well enough so they can be the scientists, leader, manger, officials and representatives of future world answer of this question is very tricky because of only one factor that has made the large number of children today emotionally unsound and academically backward and that factor is poverty. Poverty has remained a burning issue for long time for not only one nation but for the entire world.

(Battistich et al p.627-658) No country can say that they have zero percent poverty rates in the country. High or low little or huge every country some how is in the dilemma of poverty. Poverty has not been a new concern for the people of this world, a large number of populations are affected by the poverty and situation is getting worse. In Africa there is large number of population is being affected by the poverty. The concern of today is not just poverty but the increasing poverty of children and the effects that poverty is imposing on the children. The poverty of children is one issue every one is concern about in the today’s world and will remain concern in the years to come. (Hashima & Amato p.394-403)

Children’s Psychological Effect
The growing number of children leads to more demand for more schools and medical and social services and facilities to meet their needs of their families. The increasing diversity of children creates additional challenges, necessitating diversification of resources and adaptation of institutions to better serve all children. In poverty the families tend to live alone which creates problems for children. Children’s family structures have become more varied due to trends in single motherhood, divorce and cohabitation. (Brody et al p.590-605) This act creates a bad impact on the psychology of children from a very young age. Poverty is closely linked to adverse outcomes in health, education, emotional well-being and delinquency. Children living in poverty are more likely to die in infancy and also more likely to become pregnant as teenagers. The physiological effects of poverty are the greatest on the children. The poverty is one thing that can make any one to do any thing in this world even a murder. A child suffering from the effects of poverty will show the sign of psychologically effects. A recent world wide survey has proved that every year 5, 00,000 children die because of poverty. The children not getting proper diet, food, nourishments and other basic facilities of life tends to behave in such a manner that they have no hope in the life, the courage to struggle and courage to movie in the world towards a better place in the world quickly disappear from them. The Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is the best explanation of such phenomena for such children. (Bronfenbrenner p.1643-1647) .

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs as an individual or child unless or until his basic needs of food are not fulfilled the child will never have any motivation to struggle further? This proves that the basic need of every child in this world is food and nutrition. The rest is followed by it. A child who wants to be successful in the years to come may need a sound academic, family and social gathering to start with but the importance of good healthy body and mind cannot be ignored. The children affected by the poverty do not have any ambition in life because the main thing they are looking for is to survive and survive. The first thing their mind thinks is how to eat and fulfill the desire. The condition is not faced by the child who has never seen the trouble of poverty in his entire life. (Bronfenbrenner p.619-647)

Children’s Mental Health
There is no documentation that cans directly emphasis at children’s mental health in America. Documentation supports that the provision of children’s mental health services are required if these services are to become a recognized priority instead of an option. There should be some thing done in order to provide services for children, and a body should be made authority with the responsibility to bring together policy directions, service delivery and funding for children’s services. The major effects of cutbacks, lack of a coordinated plan, and the massive restructuring currently taking place in isolation could increase the existing problem, there should be some difference between the service sector and seriously impair the prospect of effective coordination for needed services for children.

The up bringing of a child is a response to a complex network of environmental, social and economic factors and a range of social supports. High quality education, health and mental health services, together with child welfare, provide the total safety net for children in our communities. (Bronfenbrenner & Ceci p. 568-586) If any one of the following fell short of their mark, it will have a significant impact on the effectiveness of the other systems. Children’s services must include provision for quality pre and post natal care, child care, education, adequate income, housing, parent supports and education, early intervention for those at risk and treatment for those with mental health problems.

The effect of low funding across the sectors is creating a truly alarming lack of support for children and families. Projects started by the government emphasis on the transfer of responsibility for services for children to local communities. There is a very real possibility that cuts in funding, downloading of programs to the community level and decreases in the tax base and resources will leave communities without any funds at all for services, such as children’s mental health services, that are not required by law or which do not fit in with the highest risk priorities. (Cairo et al p.112-118)

The two necessary components that play a vital role in the effective care ness of children are Prevention and intervention. While services for those at risk or in need may make a more urgent claim on our resources, it has been proved through research that there is an equal urgency of profiling and funding, preventive and supportive services should be introduced in a child’s life as soon as possible. Taking steps only on preventive or early intervention strategies will never change the need for adequate treatment resources.

The severely damaging effects of poverty on children’s mental health must be addressed as a major preventive measure. Many children living in poverty are increasing, as is the gap between the rich and the poor. No adequate income, families face difficult odds in raising healthy children. This also affects the mental health of a child from a very young age, which is a very bad sign for a child at a young age. (Deater-Deckard p.1065-1072)
Some families which are being penalized are already in a very bad shape they can’t get any worse. The proposal that funds saved by this measure should be used as a alternate income supports for children needs to be closely monitored to ensure that the children most in need actually directly benefit from these funds and the right full owner should be give the money. This proposal has changed the scene a lot from the past. Now many projects are being done to raise funds to help those who need our help.

Mental health is how we think, feel and act as we face life’s situations. It is how we view ourselves, our lives, and the people in our lives. Like our physical health, our mental health is important at every stage of life. Mental health includes how we handle stress, relate to others and make decisions. General stresses that mental health is critical to children’s learning and general health—as important as immunizations to ensuring that every child has the best chance for a healthy start in life. Promoting the emotional wellness of young children and fostering secure, warm relationships with parents and other caregivers are key to healthy early development and later success. (Dodge et al p.649-665)

The early experiences set the stage for how children relate to other children, how they relate to adults, how they manage anger, and how they feel about themselves.
Young people can have mental, emotional, and behavioral problems that are real, painful, and costly. They are due to an early age poverty affect. If one has to work from a very young age. The person gets these kinds of disorders due to that factor.

The following information has been taken by a research done in the United States of America by Olbrich. S, Children’s Mental Health. (2002).

Children’s Academic Life
Academics are the key to the success of any child’s life. No child can become a good and correct citizen, individual and a leader with the help of academics. Academics are the tonic which makes or breaks an individual. The importance of academic life can be seen from this that in most of the world. The poverty has damaged the academic life of the children in the entire world it may be urban, suburban or rural areas. The children affected from poverty do not bother to go school and study. There main aim is to satisfy the needs of hunger which the prime importance to them. When they satisfy there needs of hunger with the help of aid form any one then there is no motivation left to go for the education world. (Duncan et al p.296-318) The next thing come to there mind is how they will going to survive the next day. In the urban areas where there is considerably low number of poverty as compare to rural areas the children don’t often get their needs satisfied with the help of any aid form the world but they have to satisfy there problem by themselves. In the areas where is huge number of poverty among all the individuals the children get their chance to satisfy their hunger form international food supply. In the urban areas where the need of academics is more than the rural areas children suffering form poverty do not have an advantage of satisfying the hunger form international food supply. So they have beg or work in order to be alive this situation causes more complexities in the society. The issue of child labor and beggars in the city comes in the mind immediately. But the truth of the matter is that the children living in the urban area and are suffering with the poverty will never get the opportunity to go to school and have sound academic knowledge because in their entire childhood they are busy in order to satisfy there basic need of hunger. Poverty as it has played a destructive role in other parts of a human life. It also plays a vital role in the academic draw back in children life. Children who face poverty at a very young age have to leave school from a very young age. At the age when they should have been going to school, they go to earn money for their families. (Eamon p.39-54)

Given the pervasiveness of the problems of poverty and the extent to which it has been analyzed at all levels, one would expect to find more evidence of successful intervention programs. Study after study confirms that early intervention programs can have long-term positive effects, increasing the likelihood that the poor will attend school, achieve academically and socially excellence, and persist to graduation. Longitudinal studies show that participants in early intervention programs earn higher incomes and own homes and second cars in greater proportion than their peers denied such experiences.
It seems obvious that reversing the effects of poverty will require heroic measures by schools as well as other social institutions. The conditions in Africa are the worst regarding the poverty of children and the effect of this on there academic life. The huge amount of children die daily in Africa due to hunger and the condition is becoming worse every day. The authorities of Africa have an up hill task in front of them to not only clan up and vanish poverty among the children but also they have to provide them the basic education knowledge because when they will learn and understand what are the basic education is then they will able to defeat the poverty in future to come. (Guerra et al p.518-528)

How Poverty Effect Emotional Health of Children
Poverty not only makes an impact on physiological life, academic life, mental health it also affects the emotional health of children. Emotional health is an important parts of overall all health, which has to be as sound and healthy as the overall body. The most adverse effect on the emotional health is due to the emotional and social issues that surrounds the person throughout the entire life. The most important emotional and social issue of today is the poverty and especially poverty among the children. The issue of poverty makes an everlasting emotional impact on the child and it can only get worse if the situation is not rectified. The emotional health issue which poverty can make on the child can be very dangerous for that child. The physical effects can be diagnosed and treated easily but the emotional issues are the most difficult to identify and to resolve. The poverty can make a child emotionally isolated form the society. A child who sees that like other children in the urban society are getting each and every basic needs of life without ant hassle and he or she is not getting them even after all his or her efforts. Such thinking can make a child emotionally unhealthy and he can treat the world as an unfair place, where there is no justice and no equality as he or she is not considered same as the other children. Another emotional aspect of poverty among the children can generate is that particular child may consider him out of the society and so don not follow the rules and regulations of the society. He may commit him self or her self in unethical activities which may lead towards the disaster of its personal life and makes a negative impact on the society too. (Hanson et al p.198-238)
Children suffering form poverty develop emotional health problems very quickly as the first thing which poverty effects are the emotion of an individual. A mature person may be able to cope with his or her emotion and can keep cool and calm emotionally and can keep him or herself from the unethical activities and other various emotional problems. But such the case is very different and difficult for a child who is seeing other children enjoying have a good diet and food and enjoying all the essentials of life and he or she is suffering. In that case as his or her mind is immature and seeing the injustice is being done with him and having nothing to eat his or her immature emotions can urge him or her to do any thing which may result in any outcome. (Hao p.181-205)