What do you think of poor people having more babies?

Yep, those in developing countries!

Well honestly I'd say it's the same anywhere. Even here in the States, you shouldn't have more children than you can afford. I'm against the idea of people who are already on welfare having more children. The tax payers and working class pay for welfare, so basically we are raising these children, not their parents. Welfare is for those who find themselves in unfortunate situations, and I don't look down on people who NEED it, but if you're on it, you shouldn't have more children until you can afford to feed them yourself without governement aid.

I certainly agree on that!

I agree I don't think people should have more kids if they are already on welfare. I know a couple of people that way. 1 just had her fourth child and the other is about to have her fourth and they are asking me when I am having another one but I'm not crazy like them I can't afford another one so I won't make another one.

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And yes, if you can't support yourself, you have no business bringing a child into the world, that is just irresponsible.

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I do understand that, which is were I think its a touchy area that at some point in time there is a point where people go too far, and it is sad. I understand that seeing these families must be very hard on you it is tough to see kids suffering when it is not there fault nor do they have any control over it.

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I didn't say that they love there children more I have just seen in many situations where people who are poor value the little things more so they spend more quality time with there families. I am not saying that that is always the case, but I have seen many families with money that are too busy with other things to spend time with there kids, and I am not saying that it is always there fault, that is the decision they made. I remember growing up and we weren't rich but we were living pretty well financially, but my half sister's dad's side of the family were basically poor and I remember many times wishing that I had that family instead. I may have had material things but I just really wanted a loving family and parents that actually paid attention to me and spent time with me which is something my sister got a lot of with her dad. And I have seen things similar to this with others as well. And the welfare system is a different issue in its own I feel there are a lot of problems there and they make it way too easy I think for people to take advantage of it, I have seen it quite a bit.

You said they tend to value them more, which is not true, they just have more money...which there is nothing wrong with.

Maybe I am wording it wrong or we just aren't on the same vibe with the comments, I just mean and I hope this isn't taken wrong it is difficult to explain your feeling in words sometimes but that maybe some take things for granted no matter how much they may love them, so many people take things for granted every day and I'm not saying I am comletely exempt, but we live with regrets and we get so busy in our lives especially when we have the money to go out and do things that we turn around one day and our kids have grown up and moved on and we don't know when it happened. And we wish we had spent more quality time with them many times.

I have seen that you do not have to be rich to have kids,but if you are so poor that it is going to effect the children's well being,then you need to not have them.

I think what Gem is trying to say is the rich have many things to value in life, such as their success and booming careers and many possessions... poor have little valuables, so place ALL their value in their family. It's not really a difference in the amount of love.. but a difference in views and priorities.

I don't believe this converstaion is about being able to provide the kids with extra's.So long as they are taken care of properly then that is fine in my opinion.

Yes, i agree w/u.

If parents can provide the ample necessities to their children, I don't think there's reason to complain about. But I am talking about parents who hardly have the earnings to provide for themselves and yet they have the audacity to bring children out into this world! They are the ones who generally breed children that end up in the streets!

I agree with you moolah, but how do you stop these people breeding. I think it is carelessness that creates new babies, not a love of children and big families. We have advertisements soliciting for people to adopt kids from 3rd world countries because their parents have abandoned them to go and find work....wtf is that about??!!!

Your exactly right that some parents of poor families seem to be unaware of their full responsibilities. They just create so many babies thinking that perhaps they'd grow but as you said the cycle continues unless a child get smarter and learn from their parents irresponsibility!

If only more people would think like you, preparing yourself and the future of the kids, the world would have less victims of poverty and wayward kids. Thanks

I have to agree they should be more educated to think before they have children.

I may be unrealistic but I think it mainly boils down to respect. And I am not saying people should hang up ever being a parent or bringing more kids into the world...Just to think about their life before they are here. But then again my parents worked very hard to keep us off that system when I was younger and now physcially they are paying for it. But they taught me much more than any degree could about life.

I am repulsed! So they come to your doorstep and beg for money or food because they can't feed their kids! People would give for the children but definitely if possible thump the parents' head with a hammer that'll probably shake their brains and bloody get real!

Watdahek! LOL! No! We don't really want humanity to be wiped out in the face of earth. We only want little ones be protected and nurtured until they become useful adults themselves!

Omega- so you would hang your own parents?

Health departments hand out condoms for free....and offer gynecological services as well as provide birth control...and there is a fee for the last 2...but if a girl thinks she is adult enough to do the deed she can get a job at MCD's to pay for the lower cost of health care or have her boyfriend pay....LOL

But seriously I know what you are saying, but economics is not the only reason. Because there are services here in America where teen pregnancy is an issue....and with these services it still happens.

You are right.. but i guess the main problem is economically backwardness.. The parents might be thinking that the more the the kids we have the more the money earners in the family will be... possible right... In the current days, definitly the day the economic backwardness goes away, no one might think of having more and more chilkdren

What about people that have the means to afford the children they have and then something drastic happens. do you think they intended to wind up not being able to have those children? Should they be punished because they can no longer afford them? I think each individual case needs to be examined before anything is done. People that have child after child without thought for the consequences should be banned from having any more children. But each case had different circumstances and we should not roll them all into one scenario.