Children for the Wealthy?

As seen above, my headline for today’s humanities class is 'Children for the wealthy?'

I gave it this name because today in class we read an article about an American woman who recently gave birth to eight children.

Normally, I wouldn’t have a problem with a person having eight children, because they wouldn’t have control, but the controversial thing is that she had already given birth to six other children prior to the eight.

So, the situation is basically 14 infants living in their divorced, unemployed, mother’s 3 bedroom house.

I think you understand the dilemma.

Now, as I touched on above, this woman obviously doesn’t have the financial ability to care for all of her children. It already cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars for their birth, and now she is expected to pay so much just to support them?

Facts:
She already had 6 children, but used vitro fertilization in order to conceive more.
For their first year of life, one child will need roughly $9, 171. For 8 children it will cost her $73,368.
To support all of her children from birth till high school, it will cost her $1,375,408.
For diapers for 8 babies it will cost $7,000 per year.
For their college it will cost her $700,000.

This sparked up a discussion in our class, which eventually led to a fishbowl.

(A fishbowl is basically a discussion)

During the fishbowl, we expressed our feelings about what the government should do about this.

In my previous post I talked about the one-child policy in China, and how I felt it is unjust. During the fishbowl, people began talking about how the government should decide whether or not the amount of children a person should be allowed to give birth to should be based on how much money they make financially.
This is absurd!

In China, the same thing seems to be occurring, which is discrimination.

China-
Boys are allowed to be kept, but not girls, during the second birth.
Also, only the richer families could have more children, and pay off the fine!

What we are suggesting for the world-
Richer families should be allowed to have more children.

Notice a pattern?

This brings me back to my headline: ‘Children for the wealthy?’

It is my strong opinion that the amount of money that one makes should have NO effect, whatsoever on the amount of children they are allowed to have.

You may be thinking that the amount of resources in the world may cause us to feel as if we need to control child birth. As I mentioned in my previous blog: THIS SHOULDN’T BE AN ISSUE!!!

If the world worked together or made an attempt at unity, I wouldn’t even need to write any of this. The resources would be taken care of, and there would be no real issues on that subject.

In the article on the ‘woman with the 14 children’, it mentioned that she had been OBSESSED with having children from a young age. She already had 6 and got vitro fertilization in order to conceive more.
It is a FACT that many people in the world would not feel the urge to have this many children.

People have different personalities. Some want 14 children, and some don’t want any.

If the government is worried about people having too many children, maybe instead of making that kind of policy, they could invest more in educating youth on this subject. They could possibly take courses in order to learn about the difficulties of having more children, and they could use that knowledge in their lives in the future!

Since this woman didn’t have children naturally, this is a real issue. Before she had the fertilization, they should put her through rigorous counseling and made her think through this decision. The health care professionals needed to ensure that she was capable of providing her first six children care physically, emotionally, and financially before considering the fertilization again.