The secret ingredient that helps kids overcome the toxic stress of poverty [Philly.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/18/174:00 AM

Consider the case of an African American girl, born to a single mother into abject poverty. She was raped at age 9, and pregnant at 14. Or think about a young Latina, the child of an alcoholic father and a depressed mother. This girl developed diabetes at age 8 and lost her father the following year.

You might think neither girl had much hope of success.

Yet the first child grew up to be entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey; the second, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

[For more of this story, written by Daniel R. Taylor, go to http://www.philly.com/philly/h...alth-resiliency.html]

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