Just
curiosity here!

I dont get to understand what exactly are the benefits of giving birth
to many children. Let's forget about the biblical quote of 'be fruitful
and multiply' here because in a situation where you produce children and
can't give them good life economically and otherwise, it's wrong. May
be there is something am missing here. To me, two children or at most
three is perfectly ok for a family. It's more annoying when you see an
ordinary bricklayer or okada man living in just one room inhabiting 7-8
children with none having no obvious source of income and tomorrow the
children out of parental frustration becomes nuisance in our society.
Obama has just two daughters as rich as as he's. Many prominent people
have just two or three. May be there are the poor ones are knowing abt
having many children which the rich do not know.

That's why am here! Pls tell me.

Benefits? errrrrmmm!

benefits include some of them being, but not limited to these;
Football Stars (even na to dey carry the bags of the real stars)
Actors/Actress(even na waka pass dem do)
Politicians (even if na Political thugs)
Fashion designers (AKA tailors, you no need to pay anybody to sew cloth)
Engineers (even na mechanic or road side electricians)
Runs babes(AKA prosti***)
Business men (A wide range of businesses, highway robbery, yahoo-yahoo, pick pockets, etc )

[quote author=Suretrends]Benefits? errrrrmmm! [Yes, benefits. That's what i want]

None that I can think of in this day and age. It is even cheaper to hire farm hands than using your kids as farm hands, that is if the excuse is still the need for farm labour. The cost vs benefits of using one's child for such these days is not worth it.

There are no benefits so to say rather a lot of people end up
having so many children when they are trying to give birth to a particular sex of child.
I know of a woman that gave birth to seven children just because she wanted a baby girl.
She currently does not finds it easy taking care of these children. Quite pathetic.

RedBenson: Just
curiosity here!

I dont get to understand what exactly are the benefits of giving birth
to many children. Let's forget about the biblical quote of 'be fruitful
and multiply' here because in a situation where you produce children and
can't give them good life economically and otherwise, it's wrong. May
be there is something am missing here. To me, two children or at most
three is perfectly ok for a family. It's more annoying when you see an
ordinary bricklayer or okada man living in just one room inhabiting 7-8
children with none having no obvious source of income and tomorrow the
children out of parental frustration becomes nuisance in our society.
Obama has just two daughters as rich as as he's. Many prominent people
have just two or three. May be there are the poor ones are knowing abt
having many children which the rich do not know.

That's why am here! Pls tell me.

Benefits?

You're never alone. You'll always have someone to talk to, play the odd board game with and you certainly won't ever have to hear your floorboards creek eerily wondering if Casper the ghost is up to his usual pranks.

Jokes aside, you'll never be short of company, moreso if you live in the west. (well, at least before they 'fly' the nest...)

Oh, and your home would be a hub of activity, never lacking in action such as fights, quarrels, making up, etc - especially at Christmas time when everyone gets together. Ahhhhh.....I love large families oh!

One of the benefits includes travelling all over the world visiting ur grand children.

Aluta, i didnt understnd u o. Did u mean "WE" 'll have more than three?

eagle,eye:
benefits include some of them being, but not limited to these;
Football Stars (even na to dey carry the bags of the real stars)
Actors/Actress(even na waka pass dem do)
Politicians (even if na Political thugs)
Fashion designers (AKA tailors, you no need to pay anybody to sew cloth)
Engineers (even na mechanic or road side electricians)
Runs babes(AKA prosti***)
Business men (A wide range of businesses, highway robbery, yahoo-yahoo, pick pockets, etc )

Funny!
But u no finish am

RedBenson: Aluta, i didnt understnd u o. Did u mean "WE" 'll have more than three?

Just 2.

Dear let's make it just 3? Is not much even though economy is harsh?

I asked a market woman who makes meagre amount of money from the vegetable she sells and the husband is a janitor in a primary school who earns 1o,ooo naira why she has 9 kids.even people that can afford to take care of 5okis at a go and put them in the best schools still have 2 or 3 and she was like my dear its God that takes care of children.after pressurizing her on why she has 9 kids she said you know say we no be like you 'alakowes' wey get retirement money when e old,as i born plenty children na,if one no take care of me when i old the other go do.na just probability say out of 9,5 or 6 go take care of me and i nor know the one wey go take care of me so let me just struggle to raise them.as you dey see them,na my future investment them be.i said who told you educated people are relying on retirement money.we get government? Government wey mo dey pay,anybody wey dey plan to depend on government money when e grow old,na one chance e dey.anyway since you like am,dey carry your cross dey go

kulyie: I asked a market woman who makes meagre amount of money from the vegetable she sells and the husband is a janitor in a primary school who earns 1o,ooo naira why she has 9 kids.even people that can afford to take care of 5okis at a go and put them in the best schools still have 2 or 3 and she was like my dear its God that takes care of children.after pressurizing her on why she has 9 kids she said you know say we no be like you 'alakowes' wey get retirement money when e old,as i born plenty children na,if one no take care of me when i old the other go do. na just probability say out of 9,5 or 6 go take care of me and i nor know the one wey go take care of me so let me just struggle to raise them.as you dey see them,na my future investment them be. i said who told you educated people are relying on retirement money.we get government? Government wey mo dey pay,anybody wey dey plan to depend on government money when e grow old,na one chance e dey.anyway since you like am,dey carry your cross dey go

Madness, redefined.

Efemena_xy:

Madness, redefined.

That is the mindset of a typical illiterate Nigerian .Not even Nigeria alone sef lets say of most 3rd world countries. Children are a retirement plan. Its not a bad concept in itself aa ee should indeed take care of our parents .But its flawed in the sense that it further encourage s poverty.Being responsible for other people is by no means cheap so if you can barely feed yourself how much more 9. Except in cases of extreme brilliance or lets say talent whereby one or two can help lift out the family from poverty, unfortunately the poverty cycle just continues.

On a lighter note if they could afford the kids,thats a good game of probability you havr there .Is true naa no be rockey science say at least one or two out of 9 go do am.For people like us wey be 3 its possible say all the three no go do

I like big families, I have five siblings myself.

Once you have the resources, I don't see why not? Just space them properly.

My fondest memories as a child were the games, I played with my siblings. Plenty activity, fights, etc.

One vote for big families.

damiso:
That is the mindset of a typical illiterate Nigerian .Not even Nigeria alone sef lets say of most 3rd world countries. Children are a retirement plan. Its not a bad concept in itself aa ee should indeed take care of our parents .But its flawed in the sense that it further encourage s poverty.Being responsible for other people is by no means cheap so if you can barely feed yourself how much more 9. Except in cases of extreme brilliance or lets say talent whereby one or two can help lift out the family from poverty, unfortunately the poverty cycle just continues.

On a lighter note if they could afford the kids,thats a good game of probability you havr there .Is true naa no be rockey science say at least one or two out of 9 go do am.For people like us wey be 3 its possible say all the three no go do

True that.

But many of these kids grow up detesting their parents for bringing them into a world of abject poverty...

9+ kids for goodness sake! Most times, it's the parents woman looking for a particular sex, but reading this stuff about the lady here using them as her future investment...abeg, that takes the biscuit.

Don't get me wrong oh! I still do love big families BUT only families where the kids are adequately taken care of.

Most times in life, d impact investment on children by parents r d impact they (the parents) wil likely reap. Having 9 childrn is by no way define ur guarantee of sustenance in old age. If ur childrn r not properly trained 2b economically valued,even if u have 20 childrn, sorry,none might becom anytin in life to look after u.I've seen cases of 8, 10 and 11children in thier respective families and no one was successful and can boast of 20k at a time. This is becos they lacked proper parental investment. U cant reap what u didnt sow unless u want to be a thief. I've come to understand that, parents are the primary folks with sole responsiblity to cater for thier children and give them better life. Once these people fail to oblige to thier responsibility by training their children to a certain standard capable of giving them brighter future, UNLESS GOD INTERVENES by way of talent or something, none of the children will be become anything useful in life.

IT'S POINTLESS BEARING CHILDREN U CANT TAKE CARE OF.

RedBenson: Most times in life, d impact investment on children by parents r d impact they (the parents) wil likely reap. Having 9 childrn is by no way define ur guarantee of sustenance in old age. If ur childrn r not properly trained 2b economically valued,even if u have 20 childrn, sorry,none might becom anytin in life to look after u.I've seen cases of 8, 10 and 11children in thier respective families and no one was successful and can boast of 20k at a time. This is becos they lacked proper parental investment. U cant reap what u didnt sow unless u want to be a thief. I've come to understand that, parents are the primary folks with sole responsiblity to cater for thier children and give them better life. Once these people fail to oblige to thier responsibility by training their children to a certain standard capable of giving them brighter future, UNLESS GOD INTERVENES by way of talent or something, none of the children will be become anything useful in life.

IT'S POINTLESS BEARING CHILDREN U CANT TAKE CARE OF.

Nicely put.

Additionally, children are indeed a blessing and we owe it to them to make their journey on earth as comfortable as possible by training, guiding and showing them love. They never asked to be born, so they shouldn't be made out to be a burden to the parents.

If you can give them the best in everything, I don't see anything wrong in raising a large family.
I personally love big families, no dull moments

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I don't like large families because I hate noise with a passion. All these people giving birth to football teams, should one parent (the bread winner) die, what happens to the well being of these kids? I want to be able to afford sending my kids to the best universities in America or Canada and I don't see that happening if I end up with a battalion of kids. I love kids, don't get me wrong but I love them enough to want a quality life for them.

When I look at Nigeria for instance, the country holds no hope for most of her youths. Is that not why we keep hearing of Nigerians going abroad and many engaging in drug trafficking and what have you. If their parents had enough money to provide for them, will they be in other countries hustling and breaking the rules of other nations? Nigeria cannot even provide her citizens with 24/7 uninterrupted electric supply and yet many of her citizens keep birthing babies like chickens thereby bringing these innocent little ones into the world to come and live in darkness, drink dirty borehole or well water, and roam the streets unemployed after NYSC.