I remember back in those days when having a lot of children was considered a very honourable thing. In Igbo land, if a woman had up to 10 or more children a very big goat was killed for her and her husband was considered a real man. Families had large acres of farming land and livestock was very ample so taking care of a large family was not a problem at all.

But with the advent urbanization and development times have changed, farming and keeping livestock is no longer part of life and the available resources are depleting on a daily basis.

I'll give a couple of examples, a family where the parents have menial jobs. They live in a one bedroom apartment and have 6 children. These set of people will have these children and send them off to go work for someone and a good number of these kids end up being maltreated or killed or walk the streets as touts or prostitutes. On the other hand, the kids that weren't sent off will stay home and do heavy chores that is meant for a much bigger person or start hawking food along the road. So my question is this why do people keep having children when its obvious that they don't have the basic means to take care of them and bring them up properly.

[color=soyouquotedme]But those of us living in luxury we have the liberty to give birth to as many we can cater for because I'm aiming for at least 12 kids [/color]

k2039: [color=soyouquotedme]But those of us living in luxury have the liberty to give birth to as many we can cater for because I'm aiming for at least 12 kids [/color]

k2039: [color=soyouquotedme]But those of us living in luxury have the liberty to give birth to as many we can cater for because I'm aiming for at least 12 kids [/color]

Why of course you can have up to 100 children if you like as long as you can take care of them.Good luck to your wife though If you understood my post well, my question is why do some people have more children than they can afford to take care of

Dat na dem wahala!
Not my gaddem bizz!

mind-boggler:


Why of course you can have up to 100 children if you like as long as you can take care of them.Good luck to your wife though If you understood my post well, my question is[b] why do some people have more children than they can afford to take care of[/b]

[color=soyouquotedme]@ the bolded. Ignorance and stupidity. [/color]

mind-boggler:


Why of course you can have up to 100 children if you like as long as you can take care of them.Good luck to your wife though If you understood my post well, my question is why do some people have more children than they can afford to take care of

In Nigeria, it is because they can shameless go to relative to pass the buck of training/upkeep too, some do try to use emotional blackmail.

otherwise, some don't care the child can become an agbero for all they care.

mind-boggler:


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So my question is this why do people keep having children when its obvious that they don't have the basic means to take care of them and bring them up properly.

~ Poor Education

~ Lack of Family Planning awareness / access to contraceptives

~ Ongoing search for that elusive "heir" to the throne, despite having 5, 6, 7, 8...females / daughters

Efemena_xy:

~ Poor Education

~ Lack of Family Planning awareness / access to contraceptives

~ Ongoing search for that elusive "heir" to the throne, despite having 5, 6, 7, 8...females / daughters

I have a relative who had fifteen daughters from four women before finally having a son.

I bet they don't all live with him though, do they?

Efemena_xy: I bet they don't all live with him though, do they?

They do. Some can't even attend school anymore because he can't afford it.

Na wa o!

In this kind of polygamous setting, the onus is on each wife / mother to provide for, train & support her kids.

Any "help" (if at all) received from the man should be regarded as a "bonus"...

Poor ppl keeps having lots of children, rich ppl keeps having small #s of children.

Something is wrong here.

2 children are more than enough.

In Igbo land, if a woman had up to 10 or more children a very big goat was killed for her and her husband was considered a real man.

*faints*

*Ileke-IdI:


*faints*

LOL, that was waaaay back then. Not nowadays