When you hear stories about poverty, they’re usually not focused on how a person's brain deals with stress. But there's growing scientific evidence that experiences like homelessness or living in a dangerous neighborhood actually changes the brains of young children. Without intervention, these experiences can have profound consequences later in life.
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Katrina Haselgren knows about that personally. Her life was poverty, strife and chaos 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"I would lash out and I would beg for help. I needed someone to advocate for me. I didn’t think I had a voice at age 13, 12," she says. "I was always told to be quiet. Don’t say nothing."
[For more of this story, written by Jenny Brundin, go to http://www.cpr.org/news/story/...ids-who-live-poverty]
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