I was browsing various articles yesterday and came across DennMarc's topic about the "Three Child Policy for Filipino Families," (and by the way, congratulations on your accomplishments Denn). Back to the topic, I learned about it from my mother at first. We were having some chitchats when she mentioned that there is a new law which states that families should have no more than three children.

Personally, I agree on this concept, for sure most of you have observe that families who are in low class prefer to have a lot of children while families who are in high class prefer to have a limited child/children.

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Advantages of having a lot of children

More members, more force, more power

During my first time of joining our reunion, I was surprised by how many the siblings of my grandmother has, and she inherited it because she has eight children and my father is the third from the eldest. For me, eight children is a large number, but according to my father, grandma has the fewest children because her siblings have more than ten.

According to their beliefs, the more children you have, the more you reach their social standards, and having a large family gives you power and makes you popular. When two long-distance friends reunited, their usual topic of conversation was "how many children you have," and the more children you have, the better.

Helping and support system

Just like my father, since he have 7 more siblings each of them has their own responsibilities in daily life: one is responsible for feeding the cow, another for washing the dishes, another for accompanying their father fishing, and so on. . The tasks became easy and fast, unlike being only one child and you need to do a lot of chores

Enjoyable

This is why I felt jealous to those who a lot of siblings, if I found out that someone have a lot of siblings, I always say, "for sure it's fun!". And all their answers was yes, just war when they fight haha

These are just few from many advantages of having a lot of kids. But then, although there are advantage, there are major disadvantage why people and now the government prefer to limit it.

Disadvantages of having a lot of children

Parents can't afford the needs and wants for everyone

As a parents, there must be no bias, and having a lot of children is hard as they need to give to everyone what they gave to one. Example, if you give a new dress to child #1, then you must give to child #2, #3.... and this became hard for the parents.

No time for everyone

I don't know if this happened to you if you're having a lot of siblings, but based on my father's experience their parents don't have time to everyone of them as they are so many, no time to check one by one, and he personally not close to his father until he reached 30s. This give a gap to parent's connection to his children, as before their goal is to survive not to give love.

Less money, no savings

Before, I told my parents why there's only two of us, I'm asking why only two why not three of four, because for me it's fun having 2 or 3 more siblings. She answered, "because we want to give a good life to the both of you, to give all your need and wants, and also for us to save money that when it comes to emergency, we don't need to worry."

I don't know what are your opinions about this issue, yet as what I have said I agree on this, because this doesn't only help the parents in living, but to give a quality of life that every children deserves. Aside from this, the more couples do family planning, the more it helps to our economy.

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May 19, 2022

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