I vouch for it!

Oh no. In china they paid a woman $11000 (sh 920,000) to abort a 7-month old pregnancy to enforce a one-child policy!!!

Very painfull, unfair for the unborn and difficult it must have been for the couple!!!

http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/108dri9z/-/index.html

Consider this: would you rather have the Japan problem? Japan’s population has peaked and is expected to decline for decades. That means fewer workers paying fewer taxes to support an expanding horde of senior citizens. Social security, pensions and national debt interest payments occupy more than 50 per cent of Japan’s national budget right now, so the government, sooner or later, faces some very awkward decions. Raise taxes sharply? Cut benefits deeply? Plunge deeper into debt? Open the borders to young foreign immigrants to become the working segment? All are highly unpalatable to the Japanese. Japan’s inability to have children may be about to undo it.

Japan is the extreme, but much of the rich world is graying and shrinking. Former French president Jacques Chirac put it forcefully: Europe, he said, would become “a place of old people, living in old houses, ruminating about old ideas.” Countries full of old people lack new thoughts, innovative new practices, and new investment. They also lack a working population.

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Yes it is hence the reasoning that birth control is not a solution per say

Japanese men have neglected their obligation to making children. They need to import men who are enthusiastic, eager to fulfill that noble responsibility

Agreed. Large families are very often the poor who cannot afford them. The middle n upper class have it together.

Well me thinks that all these thing are intertwined.

-What makes one a poor couple?
-What are the effects of poverty in a family?
Several but one I will mention is lack of exposure/global mentality due to lack of finance,facilities etc meaning that one is trapped in their circle of cultural beliefs.
They say if u dn't taste other people's food you would think ur mum is the best cook.
Sorry to bust the bubble she is not.
Why we say it's the best is cz the food is mixed with the best ingredient called love so even it it's boiled njahi with no salt, it tastes better than what Chef Ramsey cooks.

That aside,Some cultures we cling on to hinder progress by encouraging women to breed like rats.
Long ago it was okay because we didnt have the rural urban migration we have now.Basic economic activities revolved around the home and so every child was kept busy being productive even from an early age. Compare that to now.

Other cultures insist that a woman must give birth to all male and female relatives on both side of the divide for the purpose of naming and continuation of family line.

Some cultures value boys more than girls so a woman keeps getting impregnanted every year in search of a boy.The result? A football team with no referee or field.

Other cultures measure wealth in terms of family size.The more kids the richer even if they can barely afford a bed.

Some men do not believe in family planning at all.

See how these backward cutural believes hinder progress? They increase poverty by bringing neglected kids into the society who in turn become a burden to the tax payer cz of strained and stretched resources.

So instead of just 'advising'cz God know we are not a hearing nation but an action one.
People like practical things not theory.
They need to be shown practical ways of create wealth and they will be too busy to breed anyhow.

Then these people who like throwing ideas had better know in Africa they have an ogre called Culture to deal with first.

Breaking cultural beliefs and embracing new ones for the sake of development must be the biggest challenge of all times.
I don't know how they can convince some communities that many children is not wealth when these communities sire kids with the sole purpose of taking care of animal herds and 'protect the family'from enemies.
What other options are u giving them?

How do u convince people with the mentality of late Akuku Danger that having many kids in this day and era is not fashionable?

My question now.How comes the very rich and Famous have no more than of 2-3 kids?