The number
of children that married couples have on average has been declining for several
decades now. Do
you think this is a positive or negative development?
In recent years, the average number of children per family has been decreasing constantly. I think that this situation negatively affects a child who is raised alone and society.
First of all, from an emotional perspective in the child, unlike the other parents who have to spend much more time with their many children, parents who have only one child may be comfortable for the reason that they don’t need to spend that much time rearing child, but their child may feel lonely. In particular, these days, there are many working-parents, so their children must be alone after school.
For example, in Korea, a person who is an only child commonly say that they often felt lonely because they didn’t have any being to play with like a sibling. There is a limit to the thing that parents play with their children. An only child would be bored even with their parents because most children feel more fun when they play with peers.
In that regard, the children growing alone might have negative effects on an emotional development.
Secondly, from a social perspective, having few children in a family lead to reduce of birth rate, plus, it would cause declining in productive population. Many developed countries already are experiencing these problems while they are struggled to solve the problems.
For example, many countries in Europe such as Sweden, France, and the UK have been implementing a policy to overcome the low birth rate from when they realize the problem of it. They made a policy related to child care and are conducting it to help parents who are rearing children to do their children raising more easily. This shows that the countries that are experiencing a low birth rate perceive it a really serious issue as an irreversible matter.
To sum up, even though some people think that the decrease in the size of the average family is a positive development, I personally think that this is a negative development from a children’s emotional and social point of view.
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