The central attribute that determines where children are positioned on the scales of poverty and right is power. Power describes the ability to shape one's life and one's environment. The lack of power is one of the main barriers that prevents children, families, communities or nations from escaping cycles of poverty. This can be overcome by a stratergy of empowerment: " The process of enhencing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes"
