The focus of the film is Cody and Chris' struggles with the problems of growing up in a rural, relatively impoverished environment.

If a horse is continually kept in a boring or impoverished environment, and is then moved to another environment,watch out!

Child-development specialists say they could have predicted such a fallout, citing the many studies that link an impoverished early environment with later social and emotional problems.

And particularly with young people growing up in relatively impoverished environments - for whom disease and even death are not all that unusual.

Bradshaw warns against taking on a dog which "had a chronically stressed mother or an impoverished environment during its first eight weeks".

The girl grew up in an abysmally impoverished environment, suffering constantly, nothing to touch but the close cold walls and her own miserable self.

"When kids live in an impoverished environment that gives them little or nothing back for their efforts to learn, they give up," said Dr. Bruner.

In the impoverished urban environment, street gangs such as the Crips became popular.

If they were raised in impoverished inner-city environments, children from rejecting and disordered families sought out criminal friends for emotional support.

Cannibalism often occurs in large animal husbandry systems, which are usually impoverished environments with a lack of opportunities.