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Families want fewer babies
Introduction
Thesis point
In this report, we will be discussing possible reasons on why families want fewer babies and how people's view on having babies changed compared to few years ago.
Families without children are common? Recently, most of the people prefer small family unlike few years ago. We can tell this by seeing countries with low birth rate with even lesser than 1 baby per family. For example Republic of Korea has the rate of 0.98 child per women, lower than the USA and England which has the rate of 1.73 and 1.68 births per women.
Background
Definition
A family that wants fewer babies can be defined as wanting to have a small sized family
Facts
Fact 1:
You can give more attention and provide more time to bond with each child because you have less children.
Fact 2:
Having fewer babies means parents have less work they have to do. although taking care of a child is something most people find hard to do, having fewer babies means that you won't have more burden on your shoulders than other big sized families
Fact 3:
You get to give your child a better opportunity in life as you are more focused on only 1-2 children max
Discussion
Point 1:
They have trauma related to their past such as bullying and child abuse so they don’t want their child to experience the same thing.
Example:
One of the parents went through drug abuse because they got influenced by their peers.
Elaboration:
While the parents were a child, they might have experienced abuse or bullying. They might be worried in case their child will undergo the situations he/she had been through.
Explaining the example:
When one of the parents had been substance abused before, they are scared for their future child to fall into the same situation as she/he did. They are scared that their child won't mix with the right community.
Point 2:
Met their partner too late/haven’t found a partner (at all/yet)
Example:
A person wasn't really focused in getting into a relationship or a serious one maybe because they have a hard time committing to that or they are just more focused on their career.
Explaining the example:
The person values their career rather than getting into a relationship. Maybe they want to have a wealthy future and maybe getting into a relationship just isn't what they want.
Elaboration:
Some people has a different target as their life's goal. Meeting a partner might not be important for them so they focus on other goals first before meeting their partner, leading them to meet their partner late or never.
Point 3:
They want more leisure time.
Example:
A person wants to spend their life after certain age, travelling around the world.
Explaining the example:
At their young age they will need to spend their time earning money and when they have enough money, they will start travelling around the world. If they give birth to a child, they will have to spend most of their income on their child and have less personal leisure time to enjoy. They won't have enough time to travel around after their children are all grown.
Elaboration:
Some people thinks that life is too short even just to spend all of them enjoying. They could think that having a child will be a waste of their time.
Conclusion
Summary
By having fewer babies, it has some benefits of having a small sized family and it's easy to control your household like that. Having fewer babies means that you get some burdens off your shoulder and you can focus more on yourself maybe after your child has grown up.
Answer to research question
Families want fewer babies because they don't want to bring a child into a bad life where they might not find happiness or they want to have more of their personal time or getting into a relationship might just not be the best choice if they want to be more focused in their career.
Research Question
Why do families want fewer babies?
Sources
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/upshot/americans-are-having-fewer-babies-they-told-us-why.html
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/guide/a22067818/the-real-reason-why-less-people-are-having-children/
https://www.mother.ly/news/millennials-want-fewer-kids-than-parents
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137030399_6