Msama:
Good morning! For young couples today is it advisable for them to have lots of children like in the days of our parents? Those days they had 7 or more children from a single mother.

Iyaebe:
I will not stop having children till menopause, people always think im joking whenever I said this but I'm damn serious

tensazangetsu20:
Its advisable sha. Maybe its you God wants to use to bless Nigeria with more oloshos, bandits, herdsmen, yahoo boys and cultists

Msama:
Good morning! For young couples today is it advisable for them to have lots of children like in the days of our parents? Those days they had 7 or more children from a single mother.

Gerrard59:


Anyone in Nigeria who intentionally gives birth to more than three children (this is even up for debate) admist the country's conditions is mentally impaired, no ifs or buts.

Klass99:
No, it is not advisable to have lots of children in this age and time.

Multiply and be fruitful (in the Nigerian context) is not the task of one person alone, spread the task around, for those who want it.

Having children and being a parent, should not take over your life to a point where you no longer have a life and can't even afford nice things for yourself.

Neither should it take over your life to a point where, it seems like your only purpose on this earth is having children. There's more to life than that.

Have a reasonable number of children you can take care of, without losing yourself and your soul in the process and which will also allow you to still flex, achieve other dreams and live a good life as an individual.

My colleague who dresses really well, takes vacations to nice spots and owns his house, is married with just one child. I'm not sure his current lifestyle or other feats (like the house and luxurious vacations) would have been possible at his age with 4 or 5 kids.

People with 4 or more kids are often the ones, I see struggling to pay bills and meet the demands of their family unit/household.

Msama:
Good morning! For young couples today is it advisable for them to have lots of children like in the days of our parents? Those days they had 7 or more children from a single mother.

Iyaebe:
I will not stop having children till menopause, people always think im joking whenever I said this but I'm damn serious

Klass99:


I am glad you think so.

Aren't you the fellow who said he will do a vasectomy after 2 kids?

I think your future wife will be damn lucky as well. Not because of the vasectomy alone but your general outlook and take on life, family and children.

Vision101:
I am in my 50s. Economically active. I have only a son. I'm okay. He is a mining engineer. The car he's using now is his second.

He buys things for me and the mum even when he knows that I can afford them. When the three of us go out we move like friends.

How about this?

Saintmary:
Children are beautiful, they have a way of pulling at your heartstrings, but they gulp a lot of money.

So, I advise anyone who cares to listen,
reproduce carefully.

Klass99:
No, it is not advisable to have lots of children in this age and time.

Multiply and be fruitful (in the Nigerian context) is not the task of one person alone, spread the task around, for those who want it.

Having children and being a parent, should not take over your life to a point where you no longer have a life and can't even afford nice things for yourself.

Neither should it take over your life to a point where, it seems like your only purpose on this earth is having children. There's more to life than that.

Have a reasonable number of children you can take care of, without losing yourself and your soul in the process and which will also allow you to still flex, achieve other dreams and live a good life as an individual.

My colleague who dresses really well, takes vacations to nice spots and owns his house, is married with just one child. I'm not sure his current lifestyle or other feats (like the house and luxurious vacations) would have been possible at his age with 4 or 5 kids.

People with 4 or more kids are often the ones, I see struggling to pay bills and meet the demands of their family unit/household.

Kobojunkie:
Yes, they are so beautiful that in Nigeria alone there are about 10 million of homeless/abandoned children in need of a home.

Saintmary:

You don't have to attack my point naw,
How am I the one responsible for the decision of nothing less than 150 million adults?
Is that not wickedness on your part?
What is your point exactly?

InTheCloudySky:
Only you and your spouse can answer for yourself but imo, "7 or more children" is too much, esp. in Nigeria that's already overpopulated. Even with all the childcare benefits parents here get, I rarely see people with seven kids; nobody has the time to be chasing after that many kids.