The Common Question: How Many Kids to Have?
In various chapters of the Genesis in the Bible, long lists of family trees and siblings fill the pages. These ongoing family descendants have developed the basis of the theme of family throughout the first chapters. The idea of family and how large a family should be often changes depending on the origin location of the family and what their culture believes in.
In China, the government requires that a Chinese family have no more than two offspring. The reason for the law seems to be that the Chinese government does not want to encounter overpopulation. In Mexico however, the government does not have a specific law enforcing the production of offspring. Thus most families tend to have more than four children, whom they can utilize in order to tend crops and raise animals. And in the United States, the number of children per family ranges from one to six.
I believe that it is a good idea to have a larger number of children because the payout in the end can be much better. Although one must be financially equipped to have multiple offspring, the United States government offers tax deductions for each child that you have. And even though raising a baby can create difficulties, I think that if one can raise just one child, they can have that child take care of its brother, and later both of the children can provide assistance in the supporting of the family.
This is true. For one family, having multiple children could benefit the unit. Although the payoff for one individual family might be great, I believe that it could be selfish to have a big families. Our world is extremely overpopulated and is suffering greatly as a result. Experts know that food and freshwater supplies are running low as a direct result of overpopulation. Even though limiting the number of children a family can have, China is not giving most of its citizens a freedom that american families have. When i visited China, a chinese woman explained to us that contrary to most American’s knowledge, not all families in China are limited to one child per household. She said that of course, families can have as many children as they want, but they just have to pay a fee for each child they have after the first. Also, families that live on farms in the countryside or who need more children to support their family economically are exempt from this rule. I believe that the United States and other developed countries should enforce and develop a law like this one upon families because of the current population rates. Of course many people dream of having large families with many brothers and sisters, the reality is that there are to many people in our world. I believe that when deciding how many children a family should include, they should always be thinking of the well being of our planet.