I think that you're mixing up a few things here to be honest.
I grew up poor and I don't have the faintest clue what you're talking about. Terror? Predation? Being used and discarded? No, we just didn't have that much money, every penny had to be counted, our horizons were quite low, we lived in cheap areas.
Now, if we talk about things like bad parenting / broken families, dodgy immigration status, etc, I think I can understand what you're talking about. But that's a whole different (and much more complicated) issue.
There's being stable, but poor and there poor without the stability of being able to consistently afford housing. Even without the added curse of bad parenting unstable parents.
I grew up poor and I don't have the faintest clue what you're talking about. Terror? Predation? Being used and discarded? No, we just didn't have that much money, every penny had to be counted, our horizons were quite low, we lived in cheap areas.
Now, if we talk about things like bad parenting / broken families, dodgy immigration status, etc, I think I can understand what you're talking about. But that's a whole different (and much more complicated) issue.