Timeless Issues - Effects of Poverty on Children, Health, and Society

1. BLOG: Timeless Issues Effects of Poverty on Children, Health, and Society Issues like thirst, illness, and hunger are all effects and also causes of poverty. Lack of housing, water, child abuse and violence, and poor health fuels the poverty cycle in which numerous people are trapped for life. The effects and causes of poverty are interrelated in various ways. For instance, bad sanitation spreads new and old diseases, while the lack of water and food make people vulnerable to these diseases. Poverty and Crime Unquestionably, the crime rate is higher in poverty-stricken places, impoverished neighborhoods where the unemployment rate is high, as kids and adults undertake unlawful paths to earn quick money. Recent studies have proved that unemployment leads to various kinds of poverty-related crimes rather than income inequality. It leads to crimes like murder, burglary, and more. Crimes of any kind in return affects society at large. Effects poverty has on society Poverty causes various social tensions which can threaten to divide the entire nation due to issues of income inequality. Some of the major societal effects are as follows, · Corruption Poverty directly encourages corruption at the grass hood level. People try to earn more money in a short period with the help of illegal means. · Lack of Ethics A poverty-stricken society tends to run low on ethics. Since opportunities ad resources are few, people grab whatever opportunity they get to take themselves out of the poverty cycle. This makes them do unethical works like smuggling, flesh trade, cheating, and likewise. · Weak families Families living in a poor neighborhood often quarrel among themselves which leads to the souring of family relations. Most of the slum areas are filled with riots among family members which might even take a serious turn at times. · Lack of Education Poor people are generally uneducated. Most of them prevent their younger generation from gaining education from government schools and organizations as they believe that education does not hold any meaning in life. Getting their kids educated would not help them come out of this poverty cycle as they were meant to be there. However, this ideology is at times considered a poverty myth as people living in slums are now understanding the importance of education in attaining a successful life. Now the children and health

2. BLOG: Timeless Issues Children who are living in slum areas end up building an antisocial behavior which acts as a psychological and physiological protection for them against their unhealthy and hostile environment. Social exclusion from society at large and discrimination often push them towards a more aggressive lifestyle where they lose self-control when faced with stressful situations. In addition to that, people who live in a poor neighborhood live a shorter life than their counterparts as sanitation is a big problem in their lives. Most of them suffer from various diseases and they have no money to cure themselves. Social problems like racial discrimination and untouchability have huge impacts on their life too. However, governments of different developing and under-developed countries are taking various measures and introducing new policies for eradicating poverty which not only affects social and personal lives of individuals & the society at large but also affects the economy of that specific country. Location: B5018, 5018 Jardin, Laguna Woods, CA 92637, USA