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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, you hit the nail on the head.

I'm not a heavyweight in the IQ dept, but I've always joked up I make up in persistence.  I have an engineering degree, [i]despite[/i] my math skills (or lack thereof).  But I learn what I need to.  We borrowed a 8 month old dog for several days and made sure we were up for the work, and it was work....she was only paper trained and I got her outdoor-trained by the time she went home!  I feel better once I've proven to myself I can handle something, then just be patient.

I think even if I were poor I'd keep the skills, but, maybe if I were generationally poor I wouldn't have them at all.  But there are always good examples of people to study and follow if you are willing to look around.  Which, again, requires some self awareness...[/quote]

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