It is all very sad how these poor children have to suffer. They are born to this world innocent, but why when we pledge so much does it not go to contraceptive awareness. all these people know well and good they can not provide for their children but still have more than one child, every one is entitled to have at least one child but surly carrying on breeding must not help situations.
Sorry if i offend anyone on my veiws but that is the way i think.
I remeber this question came up in 2nd year Geography.
It's a fair enough question, if the continents infastructure can't support so many people. Would money spent on a campaign to sweep the country full of contraception be well spent?
Studies show Africans would be unlikely to use it, they all want 8/9/10 children for the following reasons.
- The extrodinary high infant mortality rate. When 2 in 10 children who makes it past birth die before their first birthday (compared to 5 in 1,000 in this country) can you reasonably expect a couple living in these kinds of conditions to stop at one child.
-They will be too weak to work properly by the age of 28, they want somebody to look after them in their old age.
- Small families are easier to exploit. There is no 999 to dial in Africa, Brothers and Sisters need to watch out for one another.
That's all I remeber, I dropped the subject after 2nd year because I didn't fancy any of the teachers. I'm sure it's all a good deal more complicated than that, but the point is there are probably many good reasons why a scheme such as that would be unsuccesful. (Else I assume, with the amount of good people who dedicate their lives to helping this continent, it would have been tried already)
Dundonian has well covered the main reason for poverty in Africa, and the harrowing pictures that reach our screens.
Apologies if any of this has already been covered by bolt pp, I just didn't have a blue clue what he was on about.
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