Charly Boy has no filter! The musician and social commentator has written about one of the most controversial topics, “Making Babies in Poverty”.
Read the father of 9’s article below.
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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
fulfill 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?!!
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 can not 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 can not 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
naria 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 hard ooooo. So my simple summary today is, cultivate your sperm according to your pocket size. A word they say, is good for the wise.
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