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Incompetent household management

Name(s):

Incompetent domestic economy

Inefficient domestic skills

Inefficient use of resources in the home

Claim

Although incompetent household management can be disguised in medium and high-income families, in low income families it is crucial and is the difference between disaster and equilibrium. The poor tend to be deficient in shopping and cooking skills, relying on snacks and convenience foods to their consequent nutritional deprivation.

Broader

Incompetence

Limited functional abilities

Narrower

Predominance of fast food

Aggravates

Chaotic households ^{[in 4 loops]}

Domestic pollution

Unproductive use of resources ^{[in 1 loop]}

Unethical consumption practices ^{[in 2 loops]}

Occupational domestic accidents ^{[in 3 loops]}

Domestic waste water pollutants ^{[in 6 loops]}

Inadequate domestic refuse disposal ^{[in 4 loops]}

Household food insecurity

Aggravated by

Domestic quarrels

Limited consumer knowledge

Shortage of domestic servants

Lack of sharing of community skills

Inadequate water supply in rural communities

Strategy(ies)

Increasing efficiency of domestic skills

Requiring domestic skills

Value(s)

Reference(s)

Anderson, Digby: The Unmentionable Face of Poverty in the Nineties

Type

(D) Detailed problems

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