Family planning can reduce the rate of poverty

Happy Sunday beautiful people of read, how are you feeling this Sunday, I just came back from church now and I am very tired, it's just the second day of the year and I am feeling tiring already, haha, I didn't sleep early on new year morning and I know that must be the reason, ones again Happy New Year and I hope we achieve what we set our mind to achieve this year, even if we don't tell it to people, now to my topic of the day. 

I never wanted to go to church this morning, oh confession, lol, but is true though, I have my reasons but it wasn't strong enough, so I had to go to church, on my way, when we were about to enter keke nape (tricycle), a man and his family wanted to enter too and it was remaining two seats to move, the driver said that he won't carry them, because they are to many to carry just two seats, the man, his wife, and four children, the eldest among the children should be around 12 to 14years old when the driver told them that he won't carry them, I wanted to interfere at least to know his reasons, which he later said that it will damage his keke and so on, though his reasons are invalid and I believe that he just doesn't want to carry them because they are too many to be in just two seats, instead of three-seats at least. 

Something flashed into my mind and I remember what Reno Omokri like to say on his page, for most people who don't know Reno, I have mentioned him more than twice in my articles, he's my favorite author, Reno always addresses his readers and tell them that before you start a family, have a source of income (a business) that can go along way for you and your partner and before you decide to bring children into this world, make sure you have the resources to take good care of them, don't say children are blessings for God and God will bring money that you will use to take care of the children needs, that is a poor mindset that people needs to change, that's why there is family planning, to know how many children couples can take care of, even if children are blessings from God, which they are, does that mean one can just have 30 children without having the resources to take care of them? 

I don't know anything about the man though, but one thing I know is that he shouldn't give birth to four if he doesn't have many resources to look after them if he has a personal car that would have been a different case, because he won't start looking on how to pack his family in two seats in a keke nape or commercial bus, most rich people with the resources usually give birth to children they know they can take care of, academics and their needs. 

The rate of poverty is rising every day because of people who just bring babies into the world without having the resources to take care of them and send them to good schools, at Ring road in benin city where I live, you will see a lot of kids in the street, mostly the Fulanis children, holding strangers in clothes and following them to give them anything they have, be it money or food, and a lot of them are still planning to born this year again without looking at for the ones that are already here. 

Conclusion 

I believe that if every couple starts family planning before they engage in bringing children to the world, the rate of poverty will reduce, the earth is already populated, people should bite what they can chew, carry what they can eat, and also bring in what they can care for. 

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02/1/2022