Controlling Our Numbers
The rate at which the global economy Is getting worse each day is alarming, especially for us living in a third-world country, yet, surprisingly, our population keeps increasing, you would think that the hard economic situation of the country would make every parent wise up and control the numbers of kids they have, at least making life convenient for themselves as a parent and also not birthing more children than they can raise, and letting them suffer.
This should be common sense, right? Yet the largest percentage of families in this part of the world don't regard family planning or birth control, they still want to compete with their ancestors who birthed more than a dozen children, not considering that those days are different from the current world, then they had farms where the children are usually sent to cultivate and eat from it proceeds in the process, but today, machines have taken over major farming, and raising kids and attending to other basic life's need has become quite expensive, even right from infant stage, have you considered the price of baby milk, pampers, then school fee, health care, and other basic needs.
Some argue that more children give them joy and blessing, yet they leave these same children to suffer from a very young age, looking malnourished and not taken good care of, it's common to find children without proper parental care on the streets, not because they don't have parents but because their parent can't cater for their needs, it is worst that it's even the low or non-income earners that are guilty of not controlling the number of children they give birth to, you can't even blame it on ignorance because there are orientations about family planning everywhere, on the internet, at the hospitals or health centers where these children are birthed and even the condition of their living should have made them aware.
So will the government giving incentives as a means of encouraging everyone to stick to a strict number of children by family and reducing population work? Of course, this sounds captivating, imagine the government taking charge of my children's fees, food, and clothing to some extent, it means reduced financial burden for me, so yes many might comply, but I also feel It might work to some extent on the younger generation, and not the current one, because most are already far gone in exceeding the number of supposed children birthed also there is an issue lack of trust on the governments part, because there is every tendency for them to just lead us on for few months or years and just stop, taking us back to square one.
The best way is for each one of us to have this common sense and plan our family right so we can take care of our children well, give them the proper needs as a child, and also have enough time for ourselves. There is so much we can achieve instead of living the hand-to-mouth life till our last breath. The lesser the population, the less demand and maybe our economy would have hope of stability.
A good reflection on this topic can help us make a good decision.
The birth rate is not the same in all countries, so measures must be adapted to each situation.
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The other side of that same coin (called "controlling our numbers"), just in a couple of decades, would be turning your country into one of the current western countries with alleged better living standards, which countries now import workers from all over with different lifestyle, habits, customs, religion, etc., whose pension funds are drying out as there are no children (new working force) that would fill them up, and by all of that slightly but securely losing their identity and facing the slow death of their nations.
That's the other side of that same birth-control coin.
Maybe you think it's impossible for it to happen to you and your country, but even if you think that you are one of the poorest third-world countries, believe it or not, there are even poorer people out there.
Think about it!
Imagine yourself 30 years from now, during which some sort of more or less excessive birth-control was in action (this way or another). Only 20 years from now, your country will start facing the exact same problems the Western countries are facing now. And that's not all.
Your country will be flooded with some jungle tribesmen, some of whom may have even arrived from some cannibal tribes, but at some point, they were the only ones who wanted to do specific, low-paying jobs, and over a sudden, you and the rest of the origins of your country find yourself overwhelmed and outnumbered by people with entirely different manners, habits, customs, moral, etiquette, etc. - imposed on all your current habits and tradition.
How are you going to feel?!
Still, comparing the living condition in the Western world to ours, we would choose theirs over ours, population control is still the best way to go, and human labor is becoming lesser every day as machines are gradually taking over, if a better economy can be sustained for instance, through population control, so be it.
Thanks for your thoughtful input.
I know, you would, and that's probably because you don't see the ugly side of it (as it's not in popular shiny magazines or even less in some news), but the side that people of the western world are facing every day more and more, even though the majority still turn their heads to the other side or close their eyes in denial as the actual truth is too hard to swallow.
(Some, like i.e. Hungary are slowly coming to their senses, although I'm afraid, for some, it might be too late to repair all the damage already done.)
However, a better economy doesn't have anything to do with population control, but it has a lot to do with corruption, overall population inequality (in the sense of fostering significant class differences in both power and money), imposed dictatorship (regardless of its type or how well it is masked behind some shiny words, like "democracy" is, or any other truth-obscuring phrases or slogans), all of which bring to leading positions more or less uneducated people, non-experts in any field that would help economy prosperity to the country and its people, as most often those leaders are nothing else but gang experts who gather around them only those similar to themselves who will support them either because they are also involved in various corruption and other crimes or out of pure fear.
And in that sense, if the people of your country have a genuine desire for prosperity, a better and sustained economy, it would be way wiser to direct your focus and energy towards solving this issue than imposing some birth control, as otherwise in a very short time (just a couple of decades) you will have no people to fight against those criminals in the leading positions who will be just deeper rooted, with a much wider network of the same or similar to them, strongly controlled and unimaginably connected.
Mark my words!
I believe you have said my mind exactly. Common sense is what people should apply
True sis
Yea