The importance of the starting point
Those who are born in a context of poverty, dependency or mental health lack new much more initial resources to have the same opportunities as those born in a normality context. Nevertheless, there are people in a normality situation, with familiar and economic stability and a social network of reference, who, due to difficulties in his context, ended up in a situation of social exclusion. Nobody is free of ending up in it, but some starting points are more vulnerable. Our collective challenge as a society is balancing the opportunities for everybody.
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Questions to think about
- How does the environment where you born influence the opportunities you will have?
- What do you think it means to balance the opportunities"?"
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