[hrehhf]

> Adults in poverty often need intensive counseling, psychiatry, substance abuse therapy, and a support network of caring individuals.

You have assumed poverty in adults is caused by mental health problems and, in general, that is false. What about the rest of the adults, without mental health issues, in poverty? Poverty is caused by lack of gainful employment. There are a great many people able and willing to work but do not have gainful work and that puts them in poverty.

[dragonwriter]

> You have assumed poverty in adults is caused by mental health problems and, in general, that is false.

No, GPs argument is valid if mental health, etc., issues are correlated with poverty and complicate escaping it, even if they don't cause it.

[xenihn]

>You have assumed poverty in adults is caused by mental health problems and, in general, that is false.

You are assuming that they meant that mental health problems are the cause, while I interpreted them as a symptom of poverty.