₦airaland Forum

seunlayi:
4 is still ok. Look around, you will see 8+... Husband, 2 wives, children (s)

Oracleforce:
I was raised in one room but now I live in my own duplex...it depends on the couple....there are crosses in marriage....let everyone face his or her own cross.

RealSolution001:
I only made a suggestion but if you think it's wise to birth 20 children in your poor state, you are very free ma.

SegFault:
Abeg make una stop dey argue with this guy. Bros go born like rabbit Na las las Na beer parlour you go siddon dey blame Buhari for your woes. Rubbish and ingredients.

Solexgzy:
oga no put sand into this garri presently we are talking about the disadvantages we Will talk about its advantage later

Bearfruit:
which woman have you seen birth 20.have alot to say but your likes are just unresonable.

RealSolution001:
Birthing more than 3 is as good as 20.

valentineuwakwe:
Its one of those things my brother but we the children from those homes those days in Ajegunle enjoy it..infact growing up was fun and catering for us was everyone's business in the compound as well as disciplinary measures. We grow up to better and with healthy competition among ourselves believing our days and conditions will be better than our parents living in that one room apartments.
Today, many self made gents and ladies or
even married couples can trace there line to these roots....after former president GEJ told us he used to go to school with torn shorts and bare foot, that may mean he stay in same room conditions in Bayelsa but today the rest is history!

Czzy:
O'boy, no b small thing o!
I grew up with four of my siblings plus my parents in such condition at 56 Uzor street, Ajegunle.
Our condition was even better than our neighbors'. Some of our neighbors were 8 and 9 in number in one room.
Mind you, on the average, there were two beds in that room o!, Cushions and electronic shelves.
Las Las, level don change sha

Bearfruit:
of cause I know how unresonable your likes are.psalm 10 describes your likes. Go and read it.

Goalnaldo:
Adulthood na scam

PuZZyNegro:
In Economics, low income families give birth to many children because to them, children are investment goods while high income families give birth to fewer children because to them, children are consumption goods.

To a rich man, children are substitute goods, to a poor man, children are complementary goods.

Factors that affect the fertility rate in Nigeria are

1. Price (cost) of raising children
2. Income of the household
3. Taste and preference
4. Cost of other goods.


Now, looking at the cost of raising children, a man that lives at Lekki will definitely want to have fewer children because the cost of raising one child is high considering the environmental factors like school fees, rent, etc. Unlike a man living at Ijegun that will only need to drop 500 naira at home for the lunch of 5 children. Now, you know why someone living in the low-brow area of the city will most likely give birth to more children? Because it costs him less to raise them. They can go to government school for all that he cares!

Income of the household. Lower income should have mean fewer number of children but the reverse is the case in this country due to lack of education and exposure.

Taste and preference. People with high taste will want to have fewer number of children so to maintain a minimum living standard.

Cost of other goods. The higher the cost of other goods, the fewer the number of children should be.

Nigeria has factors 2 and 4 to help us reduce the population boom but high level of ignorance rather made it to work against us.

If you took your time to read this, please save the society by giving birth to no more than 3 children irrespective of the genders. Whatever 6 children will do for you, 3 children when properly trained can do it.

Bearfruit:
of cause I know how unresonable your likes are.psalm 10 describes your likes. Go and read it.

sevenhundred:
that's the problem, how do you know how many children you can cater for, when you don't have job and business security, you may be rich today some years later poverty comes in, likewise you may be poor later you becomes talk of the moment, and as for God he want us to multiply.

toyinsalammy:
That does not mean you should now birth all d children in d universe.

Even God said in the Bible that " he who wants to build a house should first sit down n count d cost".

It's always better to plan for d future n trust God for d best than just leaving it to chances

Bearfruit:
which woman have you seen birth 20.have alot to say but your likes are just unresonable.

sevenhundred:
the point is you cannot rule out anybody or family to get better in the future, I have someone who get rich at 70years of age.

Greystone:
My former landlord's security man had 2 wives and 9 children. His salary then was 10k/ mnth. They wer all living in one room.

Imagine the idio.t. approaching my neighbour to beg for contribution that he wanted to get a 3rd wife.

Offpoint1:
Got neighbor with 9 and she's pregnant currently... Husband na police with a rank less than than Inspector.

She confidently told me "Na all dey pikin God put for my body I go born, na God dey raise pikin... Tomorrow if dey all become something, na me go enjoy pass"
Worse she's not working, if you see the husband you see frustration. Na only 2
trouser and clothes I dey see am with. Uniform no black, e no yellow, e no brown.


As I dey so any woman I date or go marry I dey let dem no sey na 2pikin I dey born, dey 2 sef na by force... Once 2 don enter I dey go do vasectomy straight
Dey suffer I experience for this life I no wan make my enemy experience talk more of my children.

iamL:
And were the family comfortable before then? What will the rich's of a 70 year old man offer to an already grown/older children?

sevenhundred:
assuming he didn't give birth because he's poor and now he's rich, surely he will regret.

iamL:
Ur argument is baseless.

iamL:
With the way things are going in the world I don't even want to have kids that I can't protect. So either one or none.

Babysho:
This your Economics is debatable o.

The rich people give birth to fewer kids because they're educated not because they're rich. If you see a poor man with one or two kids, it's most likely because he's educated(just like the o.p has zero kids. You can tell he's educated from his write up). If you see poor man with many kids, he's 100% uneducated.

You never see Alhaji for better mansion with 4 cars in his garage and over 16 kids? And all the males don even become rogues. And his house his big and all but you'll hear one of his kid was caught stealing.

Your little arithmetic up there too doesn't add up. It doesn't cost anybody less/more to raise children. The ratio of earning to childcare/fees is the same of poor man and rich man as long as they cut their coats according to their size which they will.

Man wey born many pikin has simply decided that's what he wants to do. Especially uneducated and negligent man, he doesn't give a damn about the school they attend or food his kids eat.

I know poor men that have just one or two kids and send those kids to really good schools and on the other hand, the rich Alhaji will send just 10 kids of 16 to school and na public schools.

It's not a thing of class, it's down to education my brother.

PuZZyNegro:
Your Alhaji analysis is based on religious factor. I replied someone on this thread regarding that.

I don't really know what to say regarding your other points as they are out of my debating purview.

More like, you have given a lay man analysis. Giving a real life examples. Even at that, I know a lot of educated people with many children.

What I wrote there is Economics model. In real life, there are exceptions.

mrwonlasewonie:
you no add the cultural factors.you go see Okada man, gateman or vulcaniser wey no see Food chop go dey get mind to marry 2,3 wives,carry all of them pack for inside 1 room with over 12 children

Na those poor people wey dey fertile pass and their konji Na non stop

armyofone:
Who wan chop sufferhead konji? Only poor person ofc.