What is the main conflict in "homesick"?
a.
jean feels isolated and lonely in china.
b.
jean feels jealous of her classmates, who are all rich.
c.
jean feels as if her parents are too strict.
d.
jean feels abandoned by ian forbes, who was once her friend.

The main conflict in homesick is a. 

jean feels isolated and lonely because she is an american child living in china. she has an identity crisis, in that she believes she's living on the wrong side of the world. this conflict plays throughout the whole story, and is only resolved when she and her parents move to live with her grandma in pennsylvania.

In short, poverty can change the way the brain develops in young children. The major reason for this effect is stress. Children growing up in poverty experience multiple stressful events: neighborhood crime and drug use; divorce, parental conflict, and other family problems, including abuse and neglect by their parents; parental financial problems and unemployment; physical and mental health problems of one or more family members; and so forth. Their great levels of stress in turn affect their bodies in certain harmful ways.

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