Poverty is one of the main issues the entire world has to deal with. The world is trying to find ways to help those in need and prevent them from going in this downward spiral toward poverty again. Poverty does not only affect the people that are going through it, but it affects everyone and every country. The effects of poverty contribute to illness as well as ignorance. These effects keep the poor in the state they are in.
             The entire world is affected by poverty, but poverty is more prominent in some area around the world than others. Some of these areas include Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean. Sub Saharan Africa is also one of the main places where poverty levels are high. Poverty strikes hardest at developing countries. Within these countries, we find that the rural areas house the majority of the poor. People in poverty do not have the ability to meet their basic needs. Since they have a limited income they become hungry from lack of food. Their hunger, in turn, causes them to resort to stealing. Juvenile crime rates are higher in poverty stricken areas. Since they do not have enough money to buy products to keep themselves clean and sanitary, they are more prone to have health problems and diseases. Death is normally the reaction to these diseases since the poor do not have money to buy medicine with which to treat them. Child labor comes into effect from poverty in order for the family to get as much money as they can. The child abuse rates in poverty areas are much higher than areas without much poverty. Poverty also effects education tremendously causing academic and behavioral problems.
             Poverty can have profound detrimental effects on children's development. Millions of children in the United States are living in poverty, with millions more considered as "low-income." Children from racial and ethnic minority groups, children from single-parent families, children living in the rural south or west, and ch...