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The Destructive Effects of Poverty on Society
No doubt, children suffer the most from the consequences of poverty.
Poor children, especially the homeless, are often turned away by public
schools because they lack permanent addresses, proof of age and
immunization records. They hardly find food to eat. Mostly, they are
forced to work under difficult conditions. In some countries, children are
even sold by their families to workplaces as "slaves".
For the most part, these children earn little money, in the most
unhealthy environments imaginable that can prove lethal in some cases.
The population of India is 940 million and there are 44-100 million child
workers in the country – more than the total number of working children
in the rest of the world. In Pakistan, a country with a population of 120
million, there are approximately 8 million working children. The sad
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state of poor children is no different in the rest of the world.

Not only
Indian
children
shoulder great
burdens. All
over the
world, many
people spend
their
childhood
working.