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Because, like it or not, generational poverty is associated with lack of executive functioning skills, since parents for whatever reason (abuse, low IQ, drugs, health issues or simply having no one to teach them this) have not developed these skills and cannot pass then along to their children.

Executive functioning, more than cognitive thinking skills, and assuming an IQ in the average range, is what make people successful. It's how to start a task (planning and timing), how to continue a task (persistence), and follow-through (resilience during setbacks). Everything in life requires executive functioning skills. Training and keeping a puppy or another animal requires a lot of observational and executive functioning skills.

So people who lack impulse control and seek immediate gratification, who are generally either light on their IQ, or more frequently light in executive functioning, will take on appealing burdens then be tempted to abandon them because follow-through is an effort and skill that is sometimes beyond them.

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Man this rings true [/quote]

I'd say so as well. I know poor people whose lives have plenty of stability (although a major crisis can seriously derail that) and who keep relationships--and pets--for the animal's lifespan (except perhaps when housing changes). They tend not be reflect generational poverty so much although they are likely to come from lower-income backgrounds. Plus the executive functioning deficits are definitely compounded by the lack of money. Say, for example, an unpaid ticket for not having insurance on a vehicle. No money for the ticket. Forget the court date or find yourself without child care that day, months later a chance event puts you in front of an officer who discovers a bench warrant--small things can snowball into big things.

There can also be an element of learned helplessness as well--someone embarks on a positive path (job, schooling, budgeting, wahatever) but financially the ground is shaky and boom. Attempts at persistence are not necessarily rewarded.

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