Essay on "Growing Up in Poverty"... [250+ words]
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Poverty, is the single largest social denominator which neatly divides the society between the haves and have-nots and the ever-increasing exodus of middle class population tightly wedged between the two extremes. The looming shadow of poverty hangs heavily on the economic, social, psychological and physiological bearing of those suppressed beneath its burden.
Poverty or the inability to meet even the basic necessities of life aims to erode the very right ofa person to live life with dignity. Where basic needs like the next meal, a shelter over one’s head, clothes to provide cover are not met, being able to provide for education, recreation or medical facility is unheard of.
It is not hard to imagine how this life of abject destitution and penury would affect the fragile young minds, bodies and hearts. Being exposed to such material deprivatio increases manifold the chance of being subject to abuse of all kinds from a tender age. Child labour, child exploitation, street violence, domestic ill-treatment, bullying, sexual abuse are atrocities they face and encounter from their early years. No wonder then violence becomes a norm in their way of life and it is a constant struggle to either fight back or perish in such an environment.