In the factories, children as young as five are forced to work in order to make ends meet. Slumlords exploit their tenants, who are unable to obtain legal aid in getting fair treatment. An added burden is the large number of children in poor families. While a lack of birth control is self-evident as a contributor to excessive children, HIM needs further examination. Due to the pandemic lack of medical care in poor areas infants and toddlers often lack what is termed essential care.
Essential care includes immunizations and adaquate diet.
Most fall prey to easily vaccineable diseases such as diptheria, disentary, whooping cough, and chlorea. This high death rate forces parents to have large families. Inevitably more children survive than can be afforded, and the family is forced to send more offspring to the factories at a younger age. Although the world has many growing problems, one of the most prominent is poverty. Poverty has left millions mired in underdevelopment and hopelessness.