1. This essay starts by describing the initial encounter with Flavio and his family. Flavio is carrying water up a hill and they follow him to his house. EVerything that Flavio has falls well below the bare minimum. He uses a box to have the men sit on and the only other recognizable furniture is a sagging bed. Flavio is clearly poverty stricken. Flavio is clearly in a actegory of the poorest people on the planet. He uses a hole in the ground as a toilet and lives in a mud hut.
Only minutes away are the houses of the rich, large white buildings, very nicely furnished. But Flavio lives in extreme poverty, along with poverty comes violence. In Flavio's home there is no shortage of violence and fighting, but the other members of his family are so over exerted from being famished that they do not even react when 'normal' people would be worried. Living in poverty can make a person cold, when you are forced to deal with death and famine every day one gets used to it.
2. Paying women to take birth control is very unethical. It is an unalienable right for a woman to have as many children as she wants regardless of financial standing. It is a right granted to women by our constitution. Another reason that this is a bad idea is because it would take a greater amount of government funding than we are allocating toward poverty now. The women would not take the birth control unless the financial incentive was larger than what they can make off of welfare. Which would defeat the purpose of reallocating funds to pay for the birth control and also paying women to take it. I do believe that birth control should be free to those women who would like to use it, but I do not think that paying women to take birth control would ever work out for the better.
"How Do We Stop Poverty in the World, If It Is a Matter for the Government and Overpopulation? | All Best News." All Best News in the World. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.
