Let’s get to the root of the problem
Posted on September 30, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Eya Escanan
30 Sept 2006
I would like to send my opinion regarding the overpopulation in the Philippines.The problem with our population growth is not that it increases too fast – the problem is that thousands of children are getting born into families that can’t even support them, that those same children aren’t given the chance to a good education and that many are left unemployed, either by having a small chance in the competition with other applicants for employment because of the lack of proper schooling.
One thing leads to another. It’s a cycle - a continuous cycle of poverty and ignorance that we can’t seem to break. We shouldn’t be too humble or nice about saying it, the problem is the poor, and our (not just the government and Church, but all the other Filipinos’) inefficiency and ineffectiveness to reach out and help them. If we want to improve the lives of those who are suffering from poverty and to break this cycle that has been plaguing our country for decades, we need more than just promoting family planning methods and proposing population control policies from time to time.
We need to first realize for ourselves what the root of the problem truly is – people are not going hungry because of this so-called overpopulation crisis, people are going hungry because of poverty. We have to have a united stand on what we want to do about it.
A lot of couples, especially the ones in the lower class, fail to manage the growth of their families because they are confused on who they should follow - the government, media and the church are telling them different things on how to accomplish family planning. We need to cross the economic, political and religious barriers that deny the poor of the knowledge of responsible parenthood and how to live a better life.
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