If we see the growth rate of population, it is lop-sided. The rich and the educated lot do have only one child per family whereas the poor and illiterates have multiple kids. It is a chick and egg story to ascertain they are poor because they are illiterates or they are illiterate because they are poor. Both compliment each other. Then, why do they have so many children?
On the whole, it seems a good question. When we are unable to feed ourselves why do we have children? Unfortunately, these classes of people are not smart enough to think so or smart enough to produce more kids. How?
Sex is the only entertainment that is available to this class on free of cost. So, enjoy it as long as you can without fearing the consequences. They are smart enough that even if they happen to bear a child, this will be treated as investment – in the form of child begging or child labor. We can make much hue and cry but the reality of the society is this. This brings them money and their life is driven. So, they have more and more children thus increasing the population. Stopping child labor might discourage such population increase. However, how to define child labor? This can be discussed in a different blog.
The problem is while the educated lot is shrinking its number, the other side is ballooning. This will pose a major threat to the so-called growth of our country. The growth of country will also be lop-sided and sooner or later, India will transform into another African countries. We will still claim this as “Unity in Diversity”
Encourage Adoption: Unfortunately, in India the rules for Adoption is very stringent and approaching any Government Agency for adoption is a Herculean task. I do agree that the laws are made so that any abuse of this noble act is avoided however, such laws and bureaucracy literally drives away the genuine adopters. In all fairness, I feel that the rules are to be relaxed further. (I tried and I suffered a lot. I had an ambition to adopt a girl child but the strict laws and bureaucracy made me drop the idea. As a private sector employee, I never had so much of leaves to run from pillar to post of every Government office and fulfill the formalities. If they wanted to check, the Govt should organize the checking by deputing its personnel. But it was not the case)
Stop Surrogate Mother and Test Tube babies:
This is the stupid form of giving birth. Still, we still carry the “mera khoon; mera jigar ka tukda” sort of feelings with us but claim to be modern in terms of dressing. Any child if brought up by you becomes your blood. There is no dearth of orphan children in our country. If one is really interested in bringing up the child, why can’t they adopt and do this? If any of the parents is declared biologically unfit to bear a child, they should not be encouraged to have such surrogate mother or test tube babies. I am fully with advanced technology but not at the cost of the reality. Let such parents adopt orphans. This will, in turn, reduce the population in generations to come.
If, still, we are unable to achieve zero growth rates, then, it is not wrong to have very strict rules. Compulsory Sterilization – this is the solution that could save us. All the hospitals should carry out sterilization of the victim who gives birth to the second children without questioning. This may sound weird but one point of time; we will be forced to take this action. This needs guts and will to implement.
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