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It is a certainly a very interesting
question. Decreasing number of children per a household is an positive trend or
opposite? I believe it is a very proper social phenomenon bringing lots of
benefits to us economically and socially.
First of all, from an economic point of
view, parents can invest money to one or two children as well as save money for
the future. There would be extra budget after spending money at housing
utility, grocery, pension and so on.
For instance, in South Korea, I know two
couples who have children. One of them has two children and they used to
consider having third one. However they decided to remain with only two
children. After 5years, they think it was a right choice for the future. Because
they could not only focus on caring for their two children but also save enough
money for their retirement other than their pension plan. They are very satisfying
with this quality life as they think it would give positive impacts on both
parents and children in the future. In contrast, another couple who have five
children have been suffered from hardship due to a shortage of living money.
They think they failed on their family plan.
Secondly, from an social perspective,
society can offer a quality public education.
Small group can be organized to do many activities
such as debate club, volunteering acitivities and other hands-on activities which
allow educator focus on their a few children.
For example, in 1960, we went through
baby boom phenomenon which shows drastic increasing in birth rate. There were
six children per a household on average. Every classes in school full with more
than 60 students which is too much to be cared by one teacher. This caused a
low quality education and leads to unbalanced instruction between students. However,
in modern society, most of couples deliver one or two children. This allows
society to provide valuable instruction with students as there are limited
students per a teacher. Moreover, teachers
have greater motivation to help their students learn more effectively. In
short, small birth rate enables flexible education by avoiding overload on
teacher.
To sum up, it is undeniable that there
is a negative effect on decreasing number of children,
I would like to stress that there are
numerous benefits from shrinking number of children
from an economic and social point of
view since parents are available to focus on their children economically and
teachers can give a quality lecture to their a few student. |