Should there be a limit to the amount of children one family should have in the
- Larry Wallposted 12 years ago
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Yes, intelligent, educated, and logical people know this. Studies have consistently shown that the larger the family, the more impoverished it is. There is a higher percentage of poverty in large families than in small. In addition to socioeconomical impoverishment, parents cannot effectively spend time with each child. Some children are going to be neglected while others will receive parental care. In large families (6 and more children per household), monies are stretched to the limit. There is little or no monies for the rudiments let alone for anything else. Children in large families oftentimes do WITHOUT the basic necessities. Many have to depend upon outside charities and donations.
Children in large families have no monies for medical, dental and other forms of health care. Again, they have to depend upon outside sources such as charities and schools in order to receive the necessary health care. They have to consume inferior quality of foods such nutritious food is expensive and beyond the budget of the typical large family. Because parental care is little to nonexistent in the large family, children have to raise themselves and each other. In large families, it is the OLDEST CHILD who is the TRUE PARENT, not the actual parents. Many oldest children have no normative childhood/adolescent, having to spend formative years raising younger siblings. They also have to curtail their education goals in order to work to support their family of origin. They are lucky if they complete seconday education. College and other forms of advanced education is out of the question. Many children from large families DON'T attend college as there is NO monies and they are need to work to supplement family income.
Intelligent, thoughtful, and educated people have the amount of children that they can financially, emotionally, and psychologically support. They also have the amount of children where they can exercise an effective span of control without enlisting and/or enforcing the oldest and/or older children to assume parenting duties. Intelligent, thoughtful, and educated people know the benefits financially, emotionally, and psychologically of having smaller families(1-4 children). However, there are others who refuse to consider the financial, emotional, and psychological ramfications of having more children than they can afford. Such children suffer in more ways than one. Yes, there should be a LIMIT on the amount of children one has.
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