Starving in the shadow of plenty
What is poverty? Not having money to buy the new iPhone 6 or going out for dinner every day? Not yet. This question took a divergent view when I saw the misery some people are condemned to subsist. Poverty is a high time when millions are living with a minimum wage below the poverty line, groveling for food and cloths. Poverty is all around the world and the number of people who starve increase every day. Living only with the minimum wage, it leads to a lot of health problems and lack of education. Doomed to extremely destitution, many women are forced to forsake their children even while there are infants.
Penury is the main reason of women to abandon their children because of the hardness to nurture them. It mostly affects people in cultures with poor social welfare systems who are not financially capable of taking care of their babies. It is really mirthless and overwhelming for a mother to abandon her child, but the severe conditions let her no other option. Some of these infants meet their demise while they are discarded at the mercy of fate. In the book Birthmother: Women who have relinquished babies for adoption, Merry Jones talks about stories of different opinions and views of mothers who are force to leave their babies behind. Because of the misery women are force to leave their infants for adaption with the only hope someone capable will be able to nurture and to provide them a better life. They are devoted to sacrifice the family happiness and the moments of joy spent together. Living under the poverty line is not something a mother will choose for her baby, therefore choosing to leave the infant in an asylum might enhances the opportunities of the baby to grow up and survive.
Poverty creates illness and diseases and most of those people are residing in rural shacks, urban ghettos, or Indian reservations. The environment and the surrounding of certain people play crucial role of their health and life. The absence of clean water and shelter, proper sanitation, and medicines make those ones to suffer and live like animals. According to Rebecca Dodd’s and Lise Munck’s book, health problems are a major issue among people with low incomes or no incomes at all. Hunger and malnutrition lead to many diseases, its make people weaker, exhausted, without energy and enthusiasm to work. In Ghana, for example, winter is the season when a lot of children die because of the lack of health centers and money to afford this “luxury”. Children die of malaria, Guinea-worm, diarrhoea, skin and eye disease or snakebites. One not being able to get medical assistance and get the problem treated could conclude with fatal outcome. It is said in a report from Bulgaria that disabled and blind people are considered incapable of anything”.
People making only the minimum wage are not able to provide the basic needs of their family, and also the education of their children need. A state with uneducated population has low skilled workforce, which result in less job opportunities, limited innovations and dead industry. In Caritas Australia’s response infer that living on poverty affects child’s ability to succeed in academically and socially school environment. It can be even barrier to education at all when ones are struggling to survive achieving the basic human need. Living on minimum wage is not enough for the parents to send their kids to school and afford books and uniforms. Girls are kept home to help with household chores and take care for the siblings, while boy are force to work outside along with their parents and sometimes it’s is even a heavy job for just a kid. Some might be lucky to attend schools and get some kind of education but often they are taught by untrained teachers and also need to travel a lot to get to school.
Colliding with a tremendous problem as shortage or lack of money, people are forced to live in misery with severe living conditions and no health care. Lack of funding brings a lot of dead and