What should be done to make people stop having kids they can't afford?

Question

Should we pass out condoms and birth control like candy? Should we get rid of all types of welfare? What's the solution? What should we do?

Answer 1

The assumption in your question is that poor people having children is bad.

The reality is that a mind really is a terrible thing to waste, even the mind of an unborn child.

People are a resource that is necessary for economic expansion. By limiting the number of people available you limit the potential for economic expansion.

The Clinton recession proved this when there were so few qualified people for so many positions that wage wars began driving wages up to record levels. There were not enough people with technical skills.

Clinton attempted to solve this problem by importing skilled technical labor from other nations instead of predicting the possibility, improving education and increasing student loans and grants. The importation of labor failed where educating people could have succeeded.

Free, quality education is an investment in the economic future of a nation. Instead of taking care of the most important resource we have in the United States, people, we let them rot in poverty and oppress them with bad public education. The few that are lucky enough to climb out we treat like underprivileged lepers, not good enough for real society.

You want a solution?

Education. Quit pissing on poverty level kids and start taking care of them.

People wonder why a kid in a ghetto becomes an angry vandal when put in a "wonder world" for six hours and then forced back into a rat infested crap hole for the other eighteen.

I wonder how people can be so stupid that they do not understand.

Answer 2

Some people say that Birth Control is the answer for the poor. But then again, look at all the great minds and accomplishments that have come out of poverty. Others say eliminate welfare. How can you let people go without food, clothing, shelter or health care. Back in the good old days they did have it and it made them stronger or we wouldn't be here(survival of the fittest). But how many great minds were lost to starvation or no health are. Back then, the Churches were the basic providers of food, clothing. Go back and study your history. During the Plague it was the church that provided the basics of life. By the Church I don't mean these Con Artist TV Evangelists. I mean the local community Church. Read some Charles Dickens and others to see what it was like back then.
The Gov welfare system has been abused extensively. It is in bad need of reform. Some of these people are living much better than I am. And of course there is the corruption.
Your question doesn't have a simple answer because I have to throw discrimination into the mix.
With all this taken into consideration, I'd say that education is the major force to rid the world of the population explosion. If these young people were educated as to the results of having children under bad circumstances this would help. But in all reality, there is no answer to the question you ask.

Answer 3

there is nothing short of mandatory sterilization that can be done. birth control is readily available. you can get condoms anywhere. i work at family court and see people who have children with 5 or 6 different people on a daily basis. children do not ask to be born into such sh!tty circumstances. nothing serious enough is done to these people who owe child support to this person and that person and the other person. if there were consequences such as jail time, my tax dollars would be paying to house inmates instead of paying for welfare benefits. stop it at the root. once you're on your 3rd baby daddy/baby momma and you should be forced to get your tubes tied or get a vasectomy, unless of course you can financially provide for the offspring which i can tell ya is NOT the case 98% of the time. that's not even touching upon explaining to a 4 year old why all of his brothers and sisters dont have the same mom AND dad. it may sound harsh, but it's simple enough to avoid pregnancy. there's just a WHOLE bunch of STUPID people who just can't seem to grasp the concept.

Answer 4

You could structure the tax benefits of having children such that having one is only beneficial to at least working-class couples, and that more than one only saves you tax money if you're well into the middle class.

On a more extreme note, you could end many forms of per-child public assistance. Or just provide the same assistance regardless of the number of children involved.

That might mean that some poor people would simply abandond thier children, since caring for them would essentially be coming out of thier pocket. So, you'd have to be prepared to provide foster care, orphanages or adoption services to deal with that.

Free birth control, including longer term or permanent forms (like vascetomy) could also be made available - but never manditory, of course.

Answer 5

what number "negative" human beings do you imagine are busy trolling yahoo solutions? It calls for a pc & internet connection, something that calls for a good volume of money. As on your question, why ought to the ability to procreate purely be allowed to those who're middle type or up? Do you actual imagine that you (and society) doesn't benefit through the negative popping out youthful little ones? particular we toss them some chump change to help themselves (and youthful little ones), grumbling the hollow time, wager yet you ignore concerning the cost to the economy as an total that low-cost unskilled hard paintings delivers. convinced, some unskilled human being desires to paintings at McDonalds, at a branch save, at an section that lots pallets at an airport, on the final of many nutrition processing flowers and so on. None of those pay a living salary (sufficient to help a relatives / youngster).

Answer 6

That might mean that some poor people would simply abandond thier children, since caring for them would essentially be coming out of thier pocket. So, you'd have to be prepared to provide foster care, orphanages or adoption services to deal with that.

Answer 7

To modify peoples behavior requires modifying their thinking. And how can you muster up the general populations thinking to not be self centered. It all has to be done with thought.
But I ask you, how can you tell people that its their right to have sex and at the same time tell them not to have children. Condoms don't cut it. First, sex with a condom is like showering with a rain coat on. So unless you've tried it, you really don't know what I am talking about. Condoms at best have a 15% failure rate. Birth control works but only so long as it is being used. And then there are the long term use side effects.

Answer 8

Solution? I don't think there is a solution. Condoms & birth control pills can be passed out but that doesn't mean they will use them.

Answer 9

Stop preaching abstinence only since it doesn't work. Teach kids about abstinence and birth control so they'll be prepared. We could also encourage the creation of better paying jobs so people can afford to take care of their children, but eliminating slave labor in China and other 3rd world countries would hurt the bottom line of many corporations so that will never happen.

Answer 10

We're not China, so we shouldn't make a law that stops people from having children. Some people are major catholics and don't believe in birth control, so that wouldn't work. In other countries people have children like there'ss no tommorow because they aren't educated about STD's and pregnancy. I think we should try to get more people set up with Family Planning. You can't force someone to use birth control or condoms or not have children. Do we want to turn into a society like in Children of Men?