Maverick Charly boy aka
area father has decided to pen down his thought and views please read…………
Go ye into the world be
fruitful and multiply, oh! yes that's what the good book says. However certain
people take this literally. They see children as a blessing from God and they
view it as their duty to fulfil this prophecy by promoting procreation, rejecting
all forms of birth control, including natural family planning.
Children are viewed as a
reward from God and the more children one has, the more one has been blessed by
God but the big question is, does this put food on the table especially in this
hard times?!!
I'm still trying to wrap my
head around why the poor have more children when they can't afford to raise
them. And why the rich have fewer children when they can afford to have more.
The population demography of any society is vital in Nation building and
governments around the world have effected policies to control this growth.
A very good example will be
China’s one child per family policy, which has now been upgraded to two. It
will be commonsensical to say that people breed their kind this means a rich
family is most likely to have rich children, and a poor family, poor children.
In Nigeria we have a large majority of low income earners who are multiplying
the number of children they have. Children they cannot afford to take care of.
So wouldn't it make common sense to say that the less one earns, the less
children you should have?
This is one of life’s
ironies.
People who are rich and can
afford to have more children will not yet those that cannot afford it do. Low
income spouses spend more leisure time together than families of high income
earners. It will be typical in our society today, to see a high income family
where both couples are gainfully employed, close work late and get home from a
hectic day too tired and stressed to indulge in any intimate act but the lower
income earner seem to have more leisure time and less distractions to focus on
their love plays with their tomato selling wives. Why is this so?
Breeding children has
become a recreational sport for the poor, I feel this is an issue that we all
collectively as a society need to address. I use to think that it was mostly in
the rural areas that this kind of demography is rampant but that's not the
case, the other day I was shocked to find out that a friend’s security guard who
earns 30,000.00 naira monthly has two wives and ten children. Hummmmm, How on
earth are they going to survive on that, what type of education, feeding,
clothing can he provide for them in today's Nigeria. Don't they understand that
intimacy between spouses is also an occasion to be savored and pleasurably
enjoyed and not just for making babies?
We all need to wake up to
the harsh effects that this is having.
Government needs to have more enlightenment and sensitization programs
that will address this issue. There is a need to inform the populace about the harmful
effects of having children that one cannot afford to raise properly. The most
obvious aftereffects are when you see children hawking in the street in order
to fend for their families. This is not an issue for the government to tackle
alone, the private sector also has to join in. The first solution will be
circulating constant information about family planning: Due to a range of
factors including education and location of living, poor women don't have
access to as many family control measures as richer women so richer women have
substantially fewer "unintended" pregnancies than poorer women.
For all my brothers and
sisters coping with survival I urge you all to think more about family
planning, I know God blesses us with children but we must learn to plan our
family according to our means. By the way, I have 9 children but thank God my
school fees days are over or else e for hardooooo. So my simple summary today
is, cultivate your sperm according to your pocket size. A word they say is good
for the wise.
Article By Charly Boy
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