Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:24 PM 5/3/00 +0400, you wrote: >There's no need for a long message about that. Those people need birth >control, >not cameras. With birth control in place, they wouldn't be living on a garbage >dump in the first place. > >Bernard Until the infant death rate is improved, birth control is not an option for most people in developing countries. Their children are all they have to support them when they are unable to work due to illness or age. Families that I visit often have two or three children with the same name, because the parents want one child with that name to survive. It was not that different 100 years ago in the USA. Large families of 10 or 12 children were not unusual at all. When living conditions improve and the people can worry about something other than where their next meal is coming from or what disease might devastate them next, families do limit the number of children they have. They want a better life for their children as much as you do for yours. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com