Justin Ruegsegger

Professor Barnes

ENG 1201

27 October 2019

The Online Casebook

Stallen, Mirre. “Poverty and the Developing Brain.” Behavioral Scientist, 25 Sept. 2017,

behavioralscientist.org/can-neuroscientists-help-us-understand-fight-effects-childhood-

poverty/.

Written by Mirre Stallen, “Poverty and the Developing Brain” is an article that was

posted on the behavioral scientist in September of 2017. The focus of the article is to determine

if childhood poverty has an impact on one’s ability to achieve financial success. The article talks

about the discovery of there being a difference in the brains of children in poverty and those who

don’t.

I think the purpose of this article is to take a more scientific approach to a topic that is

dominated by statistics. I also think that Stallen intended this article to provide an explanation as

to why children in poverty struggle to become successful.

I found the author to be credible as she is a professor at Leiden University in the

Netherlands and is a senior researcher in poverty interventions. The source is the behavioral

scientist which is a trustworthy source that has a good reputation.

 This article is unique in the fact that it talks about the physical effects that poverty can

have on the brain. This will be extremely useful to me as a lot of sources focus on the statistics

whereas this has a more scientific view on the topic.

O'Donnell, Jayne, and Mabinty Quarshie. “The Startling Toll on Children Who Witness

Domestic Violence Is Just Now Being Understood.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite

Information Network, 1 Feb. 2019,

www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/01/29/domestic-violence-research-children-

abuse-mental-health-learning-aces/2227218002/.

Written by Jayne O’Donnell and Mabinty Quarshie, “The Starting Toll on Children Who

Witness Domestic Violence Is Just Now Being Understood” is an article that was posted by USA

Today in February 2019. The article showcases the effects domestic abuse on mothers and

children in the home has on young kids. The article dives into individual cases and how the kids

were affected in each scenario and uses statistics to show how common domestic abuse is and

how it sets up children for failure.

I think the purpose of the article is to help educate people about the harm domestic abuse

has on children even if they are not a direct recipient of the abuse. The other main purpose of the

article is to show how domestic abuse is more common than we think and occurs in families

across racial and economic lines.

This article can be very useful to me because there was a section that talked about how

domestic abuse occurs across all social and economic groups which is very important as we tend

to think of poor kids being the recipient of domestic abuse.

 I found this to be a credible source as it has referred to several credible sources and

professionals in their respective fields. USA Today is also a major news source that has a

reputation that it needs to uphold, and this article was not posed in a way to take a stance on any

controversial topics but is instead posted to inform people about domestic abuse.

Lindquist, Matthew, et al. “Family Background, Neighbourhood Effects and Entrepreneurship.”

Family Background, Neighbourhood Effects and Entrepreneurship | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal,

2 Dec. 2016, voxeu.org/article/family-background-neighbourhood-effects-and-entrepreneurship.

The article “Family Background, Neighbourhood Effects and Entrepreneurship” was

written by Matthew Lindquist, Joeri Sol, Mirjam van Praag, and Theodor Vladasel in December

of 2016. The article was written to determine if entrepreneurs are predetermined based on a

variety of social factors and if certain policies to increase the number of adults to become

entrepreneurs are effective.

The purpose of this article was to propose the idea that entrepreneurs may be

predetermined based on social factors such as education and having a parent who is an

entrepreneur. This was not a persuasive article but was simply proposing an idea and researching

the statistics and concluding.

I found the article to be credible as the four authors are all university professors at well

respected schools. Also, the authors have written several other credible articles on a variety of

different topics. The website is also a credible site that has a focus on research-based policy

analysis.

When we think of successfuI people we tend to think of entrepreneurs, and I think this

source has a lot of information about what causes people to become entrepreneurs. I plan to use
some of the statistics provided from this source and I believe that some of the research provided

in this article can help provide a different angle to view my topic.

Kendig, Sarah M, et al. “Childhood Poverty and the Transition to Adulthood.” Family Relations,

U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1 Apr. 2014,

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4234039/.

Written by Sarah Kendig, “Childhood Poverty and the Transition to Adulthood” is an

article that was posted to ncbi (a government website) in April 2014. The main point of the

article is to provide statistics on childhood poverty and how that affects the transition to

adulthood.

The purpose of the article is to see if childhood poverty influences the transition into

adulthood, this was accomplished by looking at tons of statistics and simply explaining what the

statistics mean. It is clear the author was not trying to prove or convince the reader of anything

but instead to just provide the information and let us come to our own conclusions.

This is a credible source as it is an official government website that was written by

several well-respected University Professors. Also, all the statistics used are official government

statistics and the sources used are by professionals in their field.

I think this article can be very useful to me as there are a lot of great statistics that can

help provide substance to my claims.

Gillett, Rachel. “30 Scientific Ways Your Childhood Affects Your Success as an Adult.”

Business Insider, Business Insider, 26 Nov. 2016, www.businessinsider.com/how-your-

childhood-affects-your-success-as-an-adult-2016-11#-6.
 Written by Rachel Gillett, “30 Scientific Ways Your Childhood Affects Your Success as

an Adult” is an article published on Business Insider in November of 2016. The main focus of

the article is to provide a list of different ways that your childhood can affect your success as an

adult and provide a statistic for each individual claim, so it has substance.

The purpose of this article seems to be to help provide parents a list of social and

environmental factors that affect a child’s success as an adult. There doesn’t seem to be any

motive from the author other than to provide interesting information and to inform the reader.

I find this source to be credible as it was published by Business Insider which is a large

and reputable news source. The author also backs up all the claims with a statistic that is very

easy to check and see where the statistic came from.

I plan to use some of the statistics in the article as evidence and use some of the links

provided with the statistics to connect with other sources on this topic.

Everding, Gerry. “Early Parent-Child Conflicts Predict Trouble Charting Life Path: The Source:

Washington University in St. Louis.” The Source, 28 Jan. 2019,

source.wustl.edu/2019/01/purpose-2/.

Written by Gerry Everding, “Early Parent-Child Conflicts Predict Trouble Charting Life

Path” is an article posted on The Source in January 2019. The main point of the article was to

delve into whether parental relationships affect whether children knew what life paths they

wanted to take.

The purpose of the article was to educate people on the effect a child’s relationships with

their parents has on their future and to share the research that was done on this topic.
 I found this to be a credible source as there is several links to studies that were conducted

and references other reputable people and sources throughout the article.

The studies that were used in the article are very interesting and can be used to explain

the effects a parent’s relationship with their child have on their success.

Evans, Gary W. “Childhood Poverty and Adult Psychological Well-Being.” Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, National Academy of

Sciences, 27 Dec. 2016, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5206566/.

Written by Gary Evans, “Childhood Poverty and Adult Psychological Well-Being” was

an article posted to ncbi (a government website) in December 2016. The focus of the article is to

look at the psychological effect’s poverty has on the brain.

The purpose of the article is simply educational as it is an article on a government

website that just lists of a bunch of statistics and explains what they mean in regard to the

psychological effect poverty can have on a person.

This is a credible source as it is a government website that has an extensive bibliography

showing where all the statistics originated from.

I think this is a very valuable resource as there are tons of great studies that were done

and lots of credible statistics that I can use to help substantiate my claims.