Does Size Matter? ;)

This week I watched a movie titled Demographic Winter:

I realized size does matter! .... it matters when it comes to family sizes ;)

Ther movie talked about how fertility rates are decreasing and if it continues this way in the near future we will start to see a drastic decline in population.  I too was one of the many people that believed that human population would just always continue to grow and we would eventually run out of resources, food, and shelter. In fact increased population is a good thing. The more people we have on this earth the more people are working, creating, and providing benefits for the rest of the world. We would never starve because there were “too many people” instead we would flourish because so many more people would be farming and harvesting food. However this is not the case as more and more people are having less and less kids the population is actually declining which means the economy suffers, cultures and ethnicities disappear, and there are less people working to provide for others. 

I was shocked to hear to the author of The Population Bomb compared having 5 children to robbing a bank. His argument was that the more children you have the more money and resources you are taking away from others. This statement was appalling to me. Children are a wonderful blessing, a gift from God! Children bring joy and happiness into this world and they will eventually grow up and become doctors, professors, presidents, or other important people. Having a child will eventually bless someone somewhere else. I just think about the people I have met in my life time. Some people don’t even realize it but they have made my life easier and brighter just because they were around.

Before I watched this video I thought when I am married I want 3-4 kids now knowing how much family sizes and fertility rates actually matter I want 5 kids! Why not? If I am perfectly capable of raising children I might as well help my Heavenly Father bring more children into this world to bless it.

Bigger is Better... in the case of Families!