Do you think women can decide to get pregnant just because they have been promised cash? can they bear the labour pain just for the sake of money?
What is more costly, is it carrying the baby then you paid after giving birth or taking care of your baby alone? The response is clear and straight.
But why are we not giving birth as our grandparents? Is it the fear of responsibility or we are no longer into taking care of children.
Some countries have in sometimes fallen short of a certain sex which the government through the ministry of health try and devise means to cover up for that deficiency.
Now this will “motivate” you to get more babies.
Mbeere North MP Muriuki Njagagua wants women in Mbeere North to have more babies because his constituency has fallen below the minimum number of 130,000 persons. He said he would give Sh2,000 to each woman giving birth.
Njagagua is worried that the Mbeere are a declining minority and may vanish without a constituency.
But he is being very shortsighted. Having more children than they can afford will condemn the Mbeere to continued poverty. Far better to have a few children that are well spaced, properly educated and ultimately more prosperous.
There is also the ethical issue that women in Africa have on average 0.7 more children than they want because of the lack of easy access to family planning services. Why push women to have more kids just to keep an MP in his job?
The current population is a headache to the government that is making the country go into unwanted debts. The country at it state right now is overburdening the citizens. What if the country encourages women to give birth to more children?
Kenya’s population is set to double by 2060 and to double again by 2100 when it will reach 160 million. Njagagua should ask himself if that number of citizens is manageable?