I wonder why the poor collectively have more children
By scheng1
@scheng1 (24650)
Singapore
July 13, 2016 2:56am CST
It seems the poor collectively (people and countries) have more children than the others.
The poor countries have higher birth rates than the richer countries.
According to the CIA Factbook, the top 10 countries with high birth rate per 1000 population are Niger, Mali, UgandaI, Zambia, Burkina, Burundi, Malawi, Somalia, Angola and Mozambique.
The bottom 10 countries in term of birth rate per 1000 population are San Marino, Taiwan, Germany, Slovenia, Singapore, South Korea, Andorra, Japan, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Monaco.
In many countries, the poor collectively have more babies than the other social classes.
It seems to defy nature.
At least animals will not produce so many when they have lesser food to eat. It is only when they have a lot of food to eat then they breed non-stop.
If we have to follow the natural trend, then the rich should have more children than the middle class, and the middle class should have more children than the poor.
Now the population growth in the human world is against logic, and against nature.
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@Letranknight2015 (51532)
• Philippines
13 Jul 16
woah, where is the philippines in it? i thought we had so many poor couples that has many children
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
13 Jul 16
Philippines is in number 59 out of the list of 224 countries.
It is still among the higher birth rate, but not as bad as the top 10 countries.
This shows that there are still many highly educated and sensitive people in Philippines who do not give births to too many children than they can support.
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@Letranknight2015 (51532)
• Philippines
13 Jul 16
@scheng1 At least it's not the worst, I didn't realize that.
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@LadyDuck (458207)
• Switzerland
13 Jul 16
I agree that is seems there is no logic, but in some countries people make children to have working hands for the agriculture. As you can see the biggest number of countries with many children are in Africa. Remember that in those countries they have not at all access at birth control.
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
15 Jul 16
Those in Africa also do not have large farms to work on.
I think the lack of knowledge and the lack of birth control are combined factors.
However, in all developed countries, the poor collectively have more children than the middle class or the rich.
They have to work hard to pay rent and buy groceries and yet they have more children.
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
18 Jul 16
@LadyDuck That still does not account for other countries that do not have this food stamp practice.
Over here in Asia, the poor still have more children than the middle class, and not all Asia countries are considered as developing countries.
I do know that all Asia countries do not have such practice of giving food stamps to the poor.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
14 Jul 16
In my opinion , it is because it is their form of entertainment at night , after they have eaten supper . Specially , in remote places where there is no electricity , the population rate is so high .
Besides , they aren't so knowledgeable yet on birth control means .
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
13 Jul 16
I think the rich ones are more educated when it comes to reproduction. The rich countries also are busy with work and some other things.
Here in the Philippines, I think in the early times, they had lots of children to have more helpers in the fields.
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
13 Jul 16
Now it seems that the poor in Philippines, especially those with no farm, and are living in slums, are having many children.
I hope your new President can reduce the number of children by the poor.
The children are becoming street kids and they will not have a good future at all.
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
13 Jul 16
@scheng1 Yup, I think he had said before that it should only be two or three kids per family.
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@sarameastrong (826)
• Surrey, British Columbia
16 Jul 16
most of the poor people who got a big family were those uneducated parents because they doesn't think the possibilities in the future ,they didn't even think if they can support the children financially or educate all the children.Perhaps,behind of the hardwork of parents is not enough to sustain all the needs due to multiple consumer in the family.
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
18 Jul 16
I doubt the poor are uneducated in many countries.
Perhaps they are lesser educated because they drop out of high school, but definitely not uneducated.
Those that are in third world countries definitely do not have education, but those in the rest of the world have a few years of education, since education is free in many countries and compulsory in a lot more countries.
@Zhaoxiaoyue (65)
• Beijing, China
13 Jul 16
This phenomena does not only exist in the Western nations but to all the third world countries worldwide, where extended families ties are still observed. Poor people tend to have more children because those poor parents think that their children could uplift their living conditions when they grow up and when they have their own jobs. This goes back during the time of our ancestors where most of the people that time dependent on agriculture. The more hands in the field the better, the more children you have the richer you become. Instead of hiring other people and paying these people for their services for farm labor, children works for the family without being paid and that is a big financial savings for the family.
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
18 Jul 16
It sure is the case in nearly all Asia countries too.
Over here in Singapore, the highly educated middle class do not have as many children as the poor.
Even when the government does not give free education or whatever for the people, the poor still have more children than the middle class.
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
13 Jul 16
I wonder if work is really a cure.
Many of these poor people in poor countries are working extremely hard, though their statistics are not captured because they are either farmers or hunters or just laborers.
I think their children work too.
There are so many reports of child labor in those countries.
Perhaps they have nothing to do at night, since many of them do not have electricity so there is no TV watching to occupy their night time.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
19 Jul 16
We have been told and have read so many reasons why this happens. Not really sure who to believe.
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
20 Jul 16
I'm sure that the poor worry about money too, yet they keep on having children that they cannot afford.
That is really irresponsible.
Their children do not have much hope of entering good schools unless they are really gifted.
The children of middle class at least can afford good private education, and they can go for all sorts of lessons in addition to school.
