davidif:
Where everybody?

davidif:
Where everybody?

davidif:
Where everybody?

omohayek:

Most Nairalanders have nothing worthwhile to contribute to topics like this, hence the lack of responses. You might as well have written an essay on the Kantian categorical imperative, or the shortcomings of the Solow growth model, that's how little sense the whole issue will make to the poorly educated hordes who frequent this forum.

Blue3k:


Making babies.

 Many Nigerian Muslims believe that pills and condoms are part of a Western plot to stop Muslims from multiplying. And in poor, rural areas centuries of experience have taught people that having lots of children makes economic sense.

tensazangetsu20:
It's not only in the north where they have issues with child birth. The problem persists all over the country. Am igbo and you still igbos who give birth to 6, 7 children in this country. Sometimes I wonder if they know how much a good education cost. I don't even know whether to attribute this problem to high levels of illiteracy cause even the educated people give birth like pigs.

tensazangetsu20:
It's not only in the north where they have issues with child birth. The problem persists all over the country. Am igbo and you still igbos who give birth to 6, 7 children in this country. Sometimes I wonder if they know how much a good education cost. I don't even know whether to attribute this problem to high levels of illiteracy cause even the educated people give birth like pigs.

carammel:
I may derail a bit on this which may be contrary to all the OP wrote.
In my own opinion,poverty is the problem with family planning in Nigeria. I was at a counselling center last week to and after all talk and bla,i was told to pay 2600naira for implano,1000naira for pregnancy test and 1600 for the drug,i may be able to afford it but can another woman who can hardly feed 2square meal afford that?
The UN claimed,family planning would check poverty,that is when there are less children,there would be more to go round everyone. I think they should make it free or highly subsidized so everyone mostly the targets "the poor",can afford it and be ready to go for it.

armyofone:
Expensive everywhere no thanks to big pharma. My pcd is talking of bc due to my heavy periods. Imagine some are over 1,000 dollars.
I think for Nigeria situation, have 3 or 4 kids and then the men clip it off by doing vasectomy. At least side chics, concubines etc will have no chance of making you have 8 kids.

armyofone:
Expensive everywhere no thanks to big pharma. My pcd is talking of bc due to my heavy periods. Imagine some are over 1,000 dollars.
I think for Nigeria situation, have 3 or 4 kids and then the men clip it off by doing vasectomy. At least side chics, concubines etc will have no chance of making you have 8 kids.

cococandy:
I'm going to come at this from a different angle and I know many people will start sweating when they read my post but I don't really care because it's true.

The major culprit in population explosion especially in third world countries is patriarchy.
The idea that a man's name has to be perpetuated makes couples have children even if deep down, they really do not want children. In fact everyone is raised to never consider the option of staying childless.

Is anyone on this thread going to claim they've never heard 'who will continue the father's name?' Like the man when he dies will be aware of anyone bearing his name or not.

The women are railroaded into this ego trip by being made to feel worthless when they aren't married or when married and their bodies can't be put to use to perpetuate the man's name.

Don't even get me started on people looking for male children while having their 7th girl and impregnating other women outside in their bid for the male gender.

Argue all we want, this contributes 50% (in my opinion) to the population explosion. At least from my experience growing up.

carammel:

Nigerian man? Do vasectomy while living in Nigeria? Lol.

eyinjuege:
Education of the girl child will help a lot, especially in the north.
Going to school will cause delay in marriage and childbirth. Instead of starting early at 14years and having 12 children at age 40, they start age 20, and have 5 children at 40 years.
Creating awareness, awareness and more awareness is key. Radio jingles on family planning, child spacing also helps a lot.
Also more importantly is targeting the men especially in societies where the men decide on everything. Let the men understand the financial importance of child spacing, and also the health implications to the women. Let them understand training 3 children properly and empowering them would yield more rewards than having 30 children all begging on the streets and joining gangs and cults due to lack of money to train and empower them.

tensazangetsu20:
It's not only in the north where they have issues with child birth. The problem persists all over the country. Am igbo and you still igbos who give birth to 6, 7 children in this country. Sometimes I wonder if they know how much a good education cost. I don't even know whether to attribute this problem to high levels of illiteracy cause even the educated people give birth like pigs.

cococandy:
I'm going to come at this from a different angle and I know many people will start sweating when they read my post but I don't really care because it's true.

The major culprit in population explosion especially in third world countries is patriarchy.
The idea that a man's name has to be perpetuated makes couples have children even if deep down, they really do not want children. In fact everyone is raised to never consider the option of staying childless.

Is anyone on this thread going to claim they've never heard 'who will continue the father's name?' Like the man when he dies will be aware of anyone bearing his name or not.

The women are railroaded into this ego trip by being made to feel worthless when they aren't married or when married and their bodies can't be put to use to perpetuate the man's name.

Don't even get me started on people looking for male children while having their 7th girl and impregnating other women outside in their bid for the male gender.

Argue all we want, this contributes 50% (in my opinion) to the population explosion. At least from my experience growing up.

DarkRebel69:


This is fairly accurate. I infer that it's a manner of reasoning that is peculiar to the simple-minded.

Men like Jesus, Budhha, et al, have no traceable descendants today, but yet their names are spoken more than a million times in a day. No one knows any of Faraday's children, but he roars to life whenever we switch on a TV set, or use an electric kettle, or use an electric washing machine. Which begs the question, even if one sought to be immortalized throughout time and space, would the most prudent way to go about it be by investing in material compositions (children) which are susceptible to decay and death, and who could just as easily be wiped out in one fell swoop by say the ravages of war, or would the more prudent way be by leaving behind an immaterial but more worthwhile legacy that would echo throughout the annals of history long after one has returned to his/her Maker?

chii8:
Please, what are the side effects of these contraceptives? Don't tell me they don't have any, especially the IUCD (coil).