Don’t poor families living off subsistence agriculture need large families to help them with their labours and to ensure that the parents will have enough children to support them in their old age?
These have historically been the leading incentives encouraging people to have large families. However, we have entered a new era brought on by the quadrupling of population in this century and by the projected fifty percent increase over the next fifty years. Growing shortages of many resources suggest that human numbers will outstrip economic growth by a considerable margin, leading to more poverty. This raises the question: “What are the rights of children being brought into an overcrowded world?” They are born into a deteriorating spiral of overpopulation, environmental degradation and lack of opportunity. Many of in the Third World work long hours are malnourished and receive little or no education. The problem of population growth in developing countries is also one of migration from rural to urban areas, typically mega-cities with sprawling slums. Rural areas can no longer support burgeoning populations. Many rural environments have been seriously degraded. Farms have been sub-d
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