# On education, poverty, and beating your children

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-education-poverty-and-beating-your-children/769834>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 27, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-education-poverty-and-beating-your-children/769834 "2016-10-27T09:52:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-education-poverty-and-beating-your-children/769834/21 "2016-11-01T14:01:48Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> There’s another contributing factor, which is that poor impulse control can lead to both child abuse and poverty.
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> It’s a complicated web of suck.

That is my impression as well. Dysfunction creates poverty and low ses, low ses and poverty creates dysfunction (money stress, time stress, etc).

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