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The anecdote of the 'me guar'd with 9 children reminds me of one of those beggers I used to see at a location in Lagos. The first time I saw her there, she was alone. Whithin a year she was with a baby. She added a baby about every year. Besides culture, the biggest obstacle to birth control is iliteracy. Funding education has low priority on the scheme of politicians.
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YES, YES YES YES AND YES.... I SHOULDNT BE A DISCUSSION.. JUST A PLANE YES
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What! please let nature take its course. Imagine that you were prevented from being born, through birth control? The problem is sipmle-distribution of worlth
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Here is a thought....stop having children until you can feed the ones you have (never mind yourself). In other words, get your priorities lined up properly. Start with education, learn and stop listening to the 'old' village voo doo.
3 out of every ten children do not celebrate their tenth birthday - thats horrible - stop having them until you know how to think...as if that will happen.
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Education, infrastructure, basic state institutions, jobs, basic healthcare, law and order. Every other issue is a misguided distraction - and would look after itself, anyway, once the basics are in place.
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It's geting political now charite (...), we are discussing population and solutions, it's even worse in so called Igboland where until a son is born they have not had children, it's not uncommon to see a woman with twelve children. Enter any Nigerian city it's Okada galore. They don't stay on at school to be educated, it's always the woman's fault.
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you don't just need to educate the women, you need to change the culture, many men believe that multiple children even if they cant afford them and watch them starve to death is a sign of their manhood and virility , they need to learn that with kids come responsibility
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Don't political connections and wealth already weight survival in favor of the elite with wealth and political connections, must the poor now be denied even the chance to procreate? Such a policy would likely require heavy handed enforcement and be hugely unpopular, doesn't Nigeria have enough social unrest already?
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Avoir des enfants pour les ragarder mourir de faim n'est pas un droit. C'est une forme de folie. Et les fous n'ont pas de droits. Quoique ici, on les laisse voter !
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AFRICAN VIEWPOINT: SHOULD BIRTH CONTROL BE MANDATORY?
THE UN ESTIMATES NIGERIA'S POPULATION COULD GROW FROM 160M TO 400M BY 2050
11 July 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18781723