Their population is growing very fast; 2.5 births per woman. Since India is overpopulated and has a limited amount of resources, it can only support a limited number of people. The larger the population, the lower wages people will get because everyone is looking for work and employers will hire the most desperate employees and work for less than the minimum wage. Joint family systems are another cause of poverty for both rural and urban families. An average family is made up of parents and children, but joint families are made up of not only parents and children but also extended families such as cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. Living in this type of family can be extremely difficult because it is more difficult for working members to feed all family members. Children are too young to work, women have no education, grandparents are too old and the men in the family may have difficulty finding work due to limited job opportunities in