The World Issue: Poverty: A Global Issue

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Poverty: A Global Issue
Poverty is a global issue that prohibits human beings of basic necessities, such as food, water, clothing, shelter, education, and health care. For over a century, poverty has affected thousands of people on a daily basis. It is not prejudice against race, age or gender and is prevalent throughout the world. Three components that may contribute to poverty are high divorce rates, overpopulation and lack of education.
It is a fact that couples who divorce or separate are far more likely to face poverty than married couples. Children in non-intact families face a higher risk of poverty throughout childhood. By age six, sixty-eight percent of children in non-married households had experienced at least one year of poverty, …show more content…

The traits and characteristics many people possess were passed onto them by family members. Children are shaped by the family they grow up in. Individuals born into poverty find it extremely difficult to break the cycle and achieve economic self-sufficiency. (FootHillsCap.org).
As long as population growth continues there will continue to be poverty. Societies that undergo excessive population growth suffer economically from a limited job market and overexploited resources. (Cnre.vt.edu.)
High birth rates occur in countries where adequate health care, land, education, jobs and social security are not available to most people. In some societies, the number of children a woman can bear, especially sons, determines a woman’s status. To have no sons may result in desertion or divorce which is another contributor to …show more content…

Where women have had access to education and media, birth rates have showed significant declines, even when income levels had not increased. (HenryGeorge.org). Expanding the availability of healthcare and making reproductive health information and services available can help educate parents on spacing births and limiting the size of their families. In turn, this would improve the quality of life for each family member as more resources would be available and their living conditions would improve.
Lack of education and poverty often go hand in hand. Education begins at a young age and is an influential factor in determining ones financial status. Today, education remains an inaccessible right for millions of children around the world. More than seventy-two million children of primary education age are not in school and seven hundred and fifty-nine million adults are illiterate and do not have the awareness necessary to improve both their living conditions and those of their children.

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