Overpopulation

I now live in the country and four children is not very many and people don't turn there heads when you say you have four children as loads of people have four or more children in there families. When we lived in the city, four children was a lot. I know when I was growing up everyone seen to have two children in there familes and people really looked if you had more than two children. I made friends with a girl in my class at primary school and was totally shocked that she was the ledest of four children, she was the only person I knew for years who had four children in her family

I've not paid much attention to the increase of population here and it's hard to tell without relying on websites or the news. I do think that it can become a problem, for the environment first and foremost, but for the health and safety of everyone as well. After all, too many people together.. sometimes isn't a good thing.

Celtice, since now everything is getting expensive, i think people living in city area don't have many children. I see people in my area mostly have only either 1 or 2 children. But, living in the rural or village area is totally different scenario. Every family seems are having more than 3 children or even more than that. I ever heard one of my relatives who stayed in village area said the more children you have in a home brings merrier life. Seems like, everyone have different opinion regarding this issue.

I have seen it in my neighbors...that despite of their social and economic status, they continue to bear child which they can't already afford to raise! So pathetic, they can't even send their children to school or buy a new pair of slippers!

I live in India and I think the population is not increasing in our area very fast.It can be because of lack of resources in our area

The area around my house used to be very calm. I used to enjoy every day a cup of coffee in the morning on the balcony. Nowadays the street is overcrowded and you cannot even sit outside. I closed all my balcony with glass. The main problem in my country is not the birth rate but the lack of jobs outside the capital which is pushing everyone to live in the capital. Also, the government service is all consentrated in the capital and if it exists outside of it it is deteriorating. Public transportation is also an issue. If you don't provide good public transport everyone will use their cars and the noise and pollution level will increase

Good discussion, celticeagle. It's funny you mention it because in a discussion I did a couple weeks ago I found out that in Germany and Canada they are trying to increase their population. Which really surprised me because in the United States you always hear about overpopulation. People get judgy about parents who have more than four children. But hey, if we get too many people in America we'll just take them to Montana, North and South Dakota and Wyoming. They've got plenty of room!

and 4 exceptionally interesting and modern today type discussions! where did you come up with all this interesting stuff? or is it just me today. guess we pretty well think alike, except i cant put it in such good words. cool! ive noticed people all over still continueing to procreate in spite of the desperate condition everyone is in. i did it out of ignorance but today, there are people actually wanting more kids and im thinking a lot has to do with the economy especially here. you only get government help if you have kids.

In the city I live are population is down around 2,000 people. Have not been paying attention to other towns and cities in the area. I do know in alot of poor countries have that problem! I know in China they have a one child rule and they still have over 1 billion people! India has over a billion people and they just keep growing! Alot of familes have lots of children and continue to if some die! It looks like Indis is not in the fame of mind to have a one child law like China has anytime soon! In Africa alot of countries families are expected to have large families! If they don't they get critized for it! No wonder some parts of the contitent have very poor countries which has famine and of course wars! Then you hear some animals in Africa are becoming endangered do to the human population exploding and taking ove their home! WIsh some of these countries could and would get people use birth control! If not famine will get more wide spread!

Have a big problem here in Mexico. To many people, not enough jobs or even places for them to live. If you see a house or an apt. for rent her it probably rents to high or is dump. We just have to many people here.