Friday 29 May 2009

Family's Size

Family size has rapidly declined in my country in the past few decades. For example, my father’s family consists of fourteen members but my family consists of only five. There are two reasons for this. First of all, modern economic problems have forced contemporary families to reduce in size in order to afford bringing up children. Secondly, people have been using new cheap contraception, which has been used by parents to prevent pregnancy and control birth. On the other hand, in the past in my country, families did not encounter the economic problem as we have now. Furthermore, they were not concerned about the number of children. Because, the more family members available, the more likely each one to get assistance. Indeed, the size of current families is less than before.

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