Monday, April 1, 2013

Poverty in Middle Class

It appears hundreds and thousands of middle class families are undergoing untold sufferings in our midst. A male member of our society with minimum earnings ventures into the marriage and bequeaths children mindlessly and get into the trouble, being unable to make both ends meet in course of time. The result is that they go to the extent of committing suicide. The man or woman has no right in the first instance to get into the wedlock without adequate means to support themselves and secondly they have no business to give birth to children when they are not able to survive in modern days.

The classic example as reported in the newspaper to day (April 1, 2013) relates to a person named Saktivel (Age 37) of Karpagam Nagar, Ponniamman Medu near Chennai Madhavaram working as a fitter in a steel mill and his wife Vanita (Age 30) decided to end their lives with  2 children - twin girls by taking poison in the meals when he failed to get some  financial support any more from his mother. Unfortunately one daughter died and other three persons who took the meal are fighting for life in the local hospital .The third child, a boy escaped because of his stay in his grand mother's home at the time of incident. 

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