As countries have developed there has been a trend towards smaller family sizes. Why does this happen? How does this affect society?
Recently, more and more families prefer to have fewer children as their nations have become richer. In this essay, I am going to explore the reasons for this trend and the impacts that it would have on their societies.
The increase of the entry of women in public affairs causes a low birth rate. This is mainly because the improved social status of women makes them seriously difficult to have many babies. For example, parenting is not easy for female employees in South Korea because of poor child-care policy of most companies although the country is technologically and economically advanced in the world. Also, the number of rose obstetrics and gynecology clinics or the distribution of free contraception make couples possible to control birth. Consequently, adults living in developed nations are able to decide their family size, which is almost impractical in developing countries.
In addition, it would have some positive influences on the society if family size would become small. Firstly, the rate of environmental contamination could be decreased drastically. The chief reason is that the use of a large number of machines and vehicles emitting CO2 or many other fumes, which cause pollution, would be increased as population rises. Secondly, unlike large family, parents in nuclear family units do not have to spend huge amounts of expenditure to educate their child, resulting in saving much more money in a household. In this way the community would be likely to experience an educational cost-cutting effect.
In conclusion, controlling birth makes female to have fewer children, which could cause less environmental issues and the reduction of educational spending in the future.