Name: Eda Angela N.

Oab
Strand/Block: HUMSS 1

We have all heard that the poor and minorities need only make better choices, work hard,
stay in school, get married, do not have children before they can afford them. If they did all this,
they wouldn’t be poor. Poverty is the lack of the basic needs of life, including food, shelter,
clothing and safe drinking water. In fact, poverty and other social miseries are in large part due
to social structure, which is how society functions at a macro level. Some societal issues, such as
racism and segregation, constantly cause disparities in education, employment and income for
marginalized group.

According to the World Bank (2009), “poverty is pronounced deprivation course begs the
question of what is meant by well-being. Poverty is related to but distinct from, inequality and
vulnerability. I suggest we will become even more divided nation of haves and have nots unless
strong measures and undertaken to change these poverty inducing behaviors at the bottom and
ward off the damage they inflict the next generation. These measures should not deny assistance
to the poor, but should link assistance to a change in behavior. Almost everyone wishes they
could do something to make a difference in the world. Concerned about poverty, some people
give money or serve food in a soup kitchen. Still, it’s easy to feel helpless about such an
enormous problem. Despite of difficult life, People still hoping for a better future for there
family and other people living in poverty.

I believe all our lives could be improved if we considered the structural influences as root
causes of social problems such as poverty and inequality. Perhaps then, we could more agree on
solutions. This general conclusion is undermined, of course, to the extent that these behaviors are
less a matter of choice than of opportunity. Not all parents encourage their children to do well in
school, some adults can’t find steady jobs and some men and women have difficulty finding
people to marry or end up in troubled marriages through no fault of their own. Even efforts to
limit the size of one’s family may fail although repeated failures that lead to a much larger
family than one can support are hard to excuse, since birth control is now widely and highly
effective.