MILLISCENT'S TWO-CHILD POLICY

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I see her every morning; holding two little girls; one girl in her left and the other one in her right hand; screaming for three other girls trying to cross the road in front of her, and she has another three month old girl tied to her back. She's always sweating as she struggles with this battalion of six girls to her small roadside shop everyday. Ooops! I forgot to tell you, she has baby bump! Yeap, she's pregnant again

I know you are furious right now, but hold on. . .before you shoot her with an AK-47, let me share her predicament with you. She got married 9 years ago, and right now she has six girls and is pregnant with one extra--which might eventually be a girl. Why has she been reduced to a baby making factory you might ask? Well, her husband and mother in-law needs a boy! One that'll be strong and fit to inherit the father's property and keep the family name.

Then I begin to wonder if we are really in the 21st century; do modern people still have this kind of orientation? Why do people bring kids that they can't fend for into this world? I really can't understand the psychology behind that! It's even funny because the lady I told you about and her husband are both 'strong church members', huh? can't their pastor advice them?

People should give birth to the number of kids they can provide for in ALL RAMIFICATIONS! Otherwise it's a crime to bring an innocent child to suffer. No wonder China has a one child policy, that might be mathematically smart but, I don't think it has great cultural benefits. I prefer a two child policy, if every family has two kids we'd have closer family units, and well behaved kids. Parents will also have time to train their kids the right way. How can you effectively train six children with a space of one year between each of them? I just wonder.

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'Mistakes' happen. . .Okay, although it's wrong for a couple to call any child a 'mistake', and I don't support abortion either. But I think this is where effective family planning comes to play; couples should be educated on different family planning methods, so that with expert advice they can choose what works best for them.

We need to also stop this thing with gender preferences. Seriously I ask again, are we really in the 21st century? You see a family with seven boys because, they say they are looking for a girl child. Or like the woman I told you about earlier, six girls, and pregnant for another which might eventually be a girl . Every child is a gift from God, and it doesn't matter the gender that gift comes in, accept that gift, love the gift, train the gift so that it can grow up to really be a gift to the world. Not just another body of mass filling up space, breathing in all our oxygen and adding to the degradation of the environment.