The people have been deprived of modern facilities in education, health, communication, and good food. People are worried due to the lack of income resources and they are unable to fulfill their needs to live a life parallel to their neighbors. In this age of competition, they feel deprived of their rights and an inferiority complex prevails upon them. They feel shy in sitting with well-off families. They are not given marital relations with well-off people because they are disliked due to poverty. Poverty is a social problem because it gives birth to many Social problems which are given below:
• Terrorism is also a product of poverty
• Terrorists trap Young children and poor youths by giving lots of money and trained them to become terrorists to destabilize the country.
• Poverty generates illiteracy and ignorance.
• Many children are unable to get an education due to this problem. Millions of children every year prefer to earn instead of education because of economic problems.
• Crime & Social evils
• Crime and social evils are produced under the Umbrella of poverty. People Commit crimes due to poverty.
Causes of poverty
Avoid low Quality Work:
The people of our nation avoid hard work and labor. They, feel shy working down in the street, and on the road. They think themselves to be respectable by not working in labor but wearing a dress clean and tidy. This concept of respect and prestige puts them into dingy houses, dirty places to live, and low-standard food to eat with missing facilities of sanitation in their residential areas.
Unemployment:
Unemployment is the most important cause of poverty. Those young men, who are unable to get jobs can do work of low standards available to them. They can work on farms. They can work in factories and in business centers at low wages. They feel shy to do so and consider these jobs to the below standards. In such cases, unemployment is self-created by them, because our culture is simple and non-technical. Employment chances are few for a large number of people. Therefore, unemployment cannot be blamed as the main cause of poverty.
Lack of Religious Education:
They avoid getting into religious education and hate the moral and cultural values of Islam. They disobey their parents and elders of the family. They walk late at night out of home in the company of associates with such habits… Ultimately they become criminals in adult life.
Anti-Social Habits:
Jobless and workless people also fall into such habits, which are anti-social like, ‘gambling, drinking, cheating, theft, and robbery. Such people feel satisfied in associates of these types. They remain satisfied and get things stolen from the house for the fulfillment of their needs. Smoking and telling a lie are bad habits developed in the general behavior of such workless adults. They are idle and useless persons hated by good citizens.
Wastage of Economic Resources:
Another cause of poverty is wasting economic resources. If the savings are not protected the family faces problems in the future. Ill health and other necessities of food and dress require money from saving.
