KRIS-CROSSING MINDANAOThey’re at Malthus again
By Antonio J. Montalvan IILast updated 01:19am (Mla time) 07/10/2006
Published on page A15 of the July 10, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
I AM REFERRING TO THE ANTI-LIFE AND ANTI-family advocates who seem not to run out of clever ways to insert their Western-based agenda into every conceivable legislation they can think of. Now they would have 21 bills of various concerns consolidated into an omnibus law covering reproductive health, population policy, two-child policy and sex education for the youth. Of the bills, at least three promote the use of artificial contraception in the guise of promoting “women’s health.”
These advocates have turned a valid societal concern into a euphemism for their real agenda-population control. If they really want to address women’s health, why is there no attempt to include Senate Bill 319? The bill seeks to ban abortive drugs and devices. The bills exclusion gives away outright the sinister intentions of the advocates.
The basis of their arguments of course, is the erroneous belief that a decline in population means economic growth and development. Thomas Robert Malthus was an English demographer from 1766-1834. It was he who introduce the rather pessimistic principle that foresaw the world’s population out running food supply, leading to decrease food per person.
To check population growth, Mathus advocated, among other solutions, what we called “moral restraint and vice.” This population control strategy called for the late marriage and sexual abstinence; but is also advocated infanticides, murder, contraception and homosexuality. But there’s the catch in the Malthus proposal: these solutions would apply only to the poor and working classes. In the Mathusian argument, only the lower social classes would assume social responsibility for societal ills.
Since then many have misinterpreted Malthus, even overlooking other aspects of his argument. For example, there are those who ignore for the fact that Malthus himself, even as he pressed for population control, stated that we cannot denigrate man’s capacity (he called it power) to increase food supply.
Those who do cling to Malthus’ theory up to this day misinterpret not just for his thought. In there vain desire to adopt the western culture of licentious behavior in the name of freedom and self-determination, they have put up their own smokescreen to keep them from seeing a succession of various scholars and students that have effectively debunked Malthus since 1960’s. At least one such study, published in 1966, was not only a pioneering initiative at that time; it gaves its proponent a Nobel prize honor. Since then, up until 1990’s and the present, a progression of other studies has only pointed to the emerging reality: there just is no population bomb.
Not only that, countries that have been lured by the Malthusian myth into running a “successful” population program now have to address the grim reality of diminishing human resources. Japan, Germany and Italy are now in the throes of the so called “ demographic winter.” The governments of Russia, Singapore, South Korea, and Bulgaria are now offering incentives to encourage childbearing in the attempt to curb population decline.
Yet here in the Philippines, anti-life advocates-usually pikon when criticize despite the fact that they have access to the legislative powers-that-be-cling to an out-of-touch, outdated and archaic thinking that even their Western gods have failed to prove in their respective countries. The advocates seem not to hear the alarm bells ringing in countries where the demographic winter has set in, countries that are now repentant at having toyed with Malthus theory.
Why the recalcitrance on the part of our anti-life advocates? There clearly a colonial agenda here that is tied to Western purse strings. These agenda-makers may not be obtrusive with their presence. It is even possible that some advocates are aware of them or have not yet notice them. But I won’t be surprise if there lurks in the shadows such anti-life giant octopuses as Planned Parenthood, whose tentacles may have spread far and wide to influence Philippine legislative efforts.
Population control is simply not the solution to poverty. The Philippine population control program, in place since the 1970’s and funded by billions of pesos of public money, has brought down the population from 3.08 percent during the period of 1960-1970 to 2.36 percent during the period 1995-2000. Despite the population decline, however, poverty incidence has not been reduce significantly. Clearly then, there are other factors that are not being address. Try curbing graft and corruption, as we expects legislators to do.
The proposed bills are premised on the belief that we are poor because we are too many. Fewer births may (or may not) mean less expense for a family, depending on its priorities. What is certain however, is that less births means less people for the labor force in the next 20 years. Higher population densities do not necessarily translate into lower personal income. We have certainly seen this in thickly populated areas that exhibit higher incomes and greater economic activity (the National Capital Region, Southern Tagalog, Cebu, Davao, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea; as opposed to Bolivia, Kenya, Ethiopia, which have lower density but also lower personal income)
Finally, when must we put a stop to the use of the term “reproductive health” which, in international forums, is simply a catch-all jargon that includes abortion; but which local advocates have repeatedly denied? The attempt to redefine a term that has become part of an all-encompassing political definition is a lame method of deceit and dishonesty.
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for these various concerns(reproductive health,population policy two child policy and sex education for the youth and promoting"womens health".i agree to the" malthus" theory government agency with primary responsibility for controlling population growth because of continued and rapid population growth in the philippines in that case it can affect the economic to our society
the two child policy like in other country they promote this kind of policy why because of the economic point mof view of the people(halimbawa na rin sa mga magulang na ayaw nilang magkaroon ng maraming anak dahil sa madadagdagan na man ang kanilang mga kakailanganin o gastusin o kayanaman nag family planning).sex education it is very important to know to the youth to become more conscious about sex and to be aware of these kind of situation and also to knowledgeable and not to be an ignorant person about sex.
for me malthus law is the concerns of the economical problem of world this include population etc....
Malthus was a political economist who was concerned about, what he saw as, the decline of living conditions in nineteenth century England. He blamed this decline on three elements: The overproduction of young; the inability of resources to keep up with the rising human population; and the irresponsibility of the lower classes. To combat this, Malthus suggested the family size of the lower class ought to be regulated such that poor families do not produce more children than they can support
in this information overpopulation is very tremendous in our country because many people are no work in this case economic will force to down because of the crisis (alam naman natin ang lagay ng pilipinas ngayon unting unting lumalala ang sitwasyon hingil sa ekonomiya kawalan ng trabaho pagtaas ng bilihin gasolina at iba pa dahil dito nalulugi ang ibang kumpanya dahil narin sa pagmahal ng bilihin mapipilitan ang kompanya na magbawas ng empleyado at saganun marami ng tao ang walang trabaho at ngayon ang gobyerno ay marami nang suliranin hingil sa mga ito bababa ang ekonomiya ng pilipinas.(hindi ito mangyayari kapag ang tao ay nagsusumikap at isa na rin sa ating gobyerno na maging alerto sa mga kalagayan ng ekonomiya sa bansa)
dahil sa teorya ni malthus malaki ang naiitulung at naiambag sa tao na maging responsable at magsikap.
paul garret lacsi IV-maawain
Malthus argued that as wages increase within an economy, the birth-rate increases while the death-rate decreases. He reasoned that high incomes allowed people to have sufficient means to raise their children, thus resulting in greater desire to have more children which increases the population. In addition, high incomes also allowed people to afford proper medication to fight off potentially harmful diseases, thus decreasing the death-rate. As a result, wage-increases caused population to grow as the birth-rate increases and the death-rate decreases. He further argued that as the supply of labor increases with the increased population-growth at a constant labor demand, the wages earned would decrease eventually to subsistence, where the birth-rate equals the death-rate, resulting in no growth in population. However, the world generally has experienced quite a different result than the one Malthus predicted. During the late 19th and early 20th century, the population (and wages) increased as the industrial revolution gathered pace. However, birth rates in highly-developed nations have dropped to bare replacement-levels, such that many Western nations like the US and Canada only grow due to immigration, and Japan faces a declining population when the post-World War II generation dies off.
We must control the population growth for us o be one of a progressive country.I agree about the Malthusian theory about wo child policy and sex education so that minors can realize how im protant to study than entering a relationships.The theory also influences the people today to strive harder for them to become successful.Malthus's theory of population has proven very influential.It had great influence and also profoundly affected the modern-day.Global food production has generally kept pace with population growth, but increasing numbers of humans call for new ways to increase yields while preserving natural habitats and biodiversity.As the world became more industrialized, the level of technology and production grew, causing an increase in labor-demand. Thus, even though labor-supply increased, so did the demand for labor. In fact, the labor-demand arguably increased more than the supply, as measured by the historically observed increase in real wages globally with population growth.
...malthus developed a model of growth that can best be understood by thinking of people as a huge farm, fixed acreage, confronted with a potential for rapid population growth. Such growth leads to an increase in the output of products, as more labor is applied to a fixed amount of land. But, although output does indeed grow, the increments to output grow at a declining rate due to the law of diminishing returns. Eventually population growth will lead to a situation where diminishing returns drive up the incremental output of additional labor down to zero, at some point the addition of yet another laborer to a farm of fixed size yields no increase whatever in the output of food. At such a point, even though the working population receives no more than a bare subsistence wage, wage payments eat up literally the entire output of the economy. Further growth is impossible because no nonwage income is available for capital formation. The economy has arrived at a so called stationary state, where population has grown to its maximum size and the bulk of the population is living at a bare subsistence level
He predicted population would increase according to a geometric progression. Food production would only increase in arithmetic progression. Some reasons why his projections have not been realized are discussed. Still, critics point out that greater economic productivity has caused problems for the surroundings. Also, population growth remains very high in poor nations. The rapid population growth would lead to social chaos. At such a rate, Malthus concluded that world population would soon go out of control. It was the unexpected population growth two centuries ago that sparked the growth of demography. Malthus presented a disturbing vision of the future: people reproducing further than what the planet could feed. It would then eventually lead to widespread starvation.
the Malthusian Theory of Population is one of the few economic propositions which has come to be true, despite the large leaps in technolgy in the decades of the 20th and 21st centuries.[{ Just see what is happening to the countries with high density of population countries(other than Japan) like China, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia.}source from my cousin] The extent of poverty shows that disaster is almost inevitable, even if not in terms of death from famine. Terrorism, malnutrition, non-availabilty of drinking water, poor medicl facilities, low incoms (poverty level conditions), corruption, military dictatorships, religious fueds, political instability are all modern day equivalence of social chaos and mass deaths.
Catholic overpopulation, in a non-Catholic rice crisis..
MANILA, Philippines - Catholic overpopulation is the favorite whipping boy of many pundits. Its centuries of consistency on the natural legal dictum that human life is a gift and for which it deserves an unchanging value no matter the mores of the times, the Catholic Church stands once again on the docket in what is largely a trial by publicity. And it makes for good economics.
The issue is the perceived rice crisis. The basis of the indictment seems to be, as is usual, the monocausal illogic that socio-economic woes are caused by overpopulation-and from the usual manner it is made to sound, by no other factor-and because the Catholic Church is staunchly against artificial contraception, then simplistically it is to blame.
In this latest analysis that borders on the pseudo, the version has changed but the logic has not, that there is not enough rice to feed a population that continues to burgeon because the Church prohibits artificial contraception. That is probably the most naïve argument of the season.
To start with, is there truly a rice crisis that has doomed this entire land from Jolo to Aparri, or to make it more geographically correct, from Sibutu to Y'ami? Manila media says there is. Life in the province, however, testifies that there is none. At the most, there are few lines that are mostly panic-induced by a false notion that rice is about to be depleted. But it has not. Nonetheless, score one for the pundits there for effectively causing those lines.
In a Manila, however, that is bursting at the seams with migration from the provinces and thus has lost the bucolic quality that we in the provinces still have the pleasure of possessing, the perception of a rice crisis truly registers. Unlike the provinces, Manila is possibly so overpopulated with migrants that it becomes easy to influence (impose?) its thinking on the Filipino majority that there truly are more mouths to feed. Likewise, Manila's punditocracy easily finds convenience in punishing the Catholic Church for it.
Demographic science, however, does not agree. In truth, there is a growing rise of artificial contraceptive use across the Filipino population. What that means is that many Filipino Catholics, practicing or nominally otherwise, are increasingly not following the Church teaching against artificial contraception. Given that real scenario, one can surely expect the Catholic Church to step up its catechesis, even if only one soul is left to care to listen. Have we forgotten our knowledge of scriptural accounts? The Church, in fact, has always had this courageous forbearance in the face of opposition and persecution. As we all know, it may even take martyrdom to do so.
Anti-life advocates must banish all their thoughts that the Church will change one day and allow IUDs and condoms and Depo-Provera for all its faithful, married or otherwise. If it does that, truth and freedom will have to be redefined according to, in the first place, the relative conveniences of the times. We can never guess what arguments for upcoming social mores will be thought of next, for that is what relativism is all about.
So while we are engrossed in the vogue of chastising the Catholic Church for the rice crisis, the rest of the world has passed us by and has already found the answers.
The problem is not so much production as it is of distribution or discernment dictated by the socio-cultural fabric. It is a problem induced by profiteers, by illicit repackaging, by devious hoarders. In Vietnam, it is caused by an unusually cold weather and pest infestation-at least this is the only production problem in the region. But Vietnam being the second largest rice exporter of the world, the reverberation is understandable.
In other countries, it is caused by a shift to biofuels such as corn production to produce ethanol, thus boosting a demand for rice, not to mention the temperatures of global warming.
Rice is a cultural and social staple more than it is agricultural, and often wields a socio-psychological weight on society. The skyrocketing prices of rice in India, for instance, are largely panic-induced. The report of a new cartel governing the rice market by the Mekong River countries leaves us nothing to the imagination that this was a knee-jerk reaction so understandable in rice-consuming countries. It is a reality of the culture of rice that the mere prospect of its shortage, even if it is mostly perceived or induced, can cause mass hysteria.
When the catcalls of those hysterics start dying down, however, we have unnecessarily bruised a Church that we have only made a social scapegoat. Much of our praxis at social analysis needs more sophistication.
There is plenty of rice. The Catholic Church is here to prevail.
I agree to "malthus"theory that government agency must have a law for controlling growth population therefore I conclude that population naturally tended to double every twenty-five years. Thus, population would increase at a geometrical ratio and no more people can find enough food and if the government allow this policy or law our number of population will decreases into minimal amount.
Thus, any reform that might interfere with the interests of any powerful class is discouraged as hopeless. Nothing can really be done, individually or socially, to reduce poverty. This theory, while exploiting the erroneous thoughts of the poor, justifies the greed of the rich and the selfishness of the powerful.Poverty is due to the pressure of population against subsistence.
> kapag ang goberyno ay wala pang ginawa tungkol didto maging kawawa lang ang mga taong mahihirap at ang mga taong walang sapat na kaalaman kung paano nila matutulungan ang kanilang mga sarili sa ganitong problema. kaya dapat na mangialam ang goberyno kung paano nila ito masolusyonan.
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS as a english political economist and demographer he expressed the views on population growth and noted the potential for populations to increase rapidly, and often faster than the food supply available to them. Some modern commentators refer to this scenario.An Essay on the principle of the population, as a malthusian catastrophe.
He consolidated the omnibus law covering reproductive health, population policy, two child policy
and sexual education for youth and at least three promote the use of artificial contraception in the guise of promoting "women' health."
I totally agree to the theory of malthus because the government agency
the responsible to control the population growth.He introduce the rather pessimistic principle that fore the world' population out running food supply, leading to decrease food per person.
Malthus ties poverty to population growth. Thomas Robert Malthus declared population always increases at a faster rate than the food supply. As a result, humanity is never far from starvation. Arguing against government relief for the poor, Malthus said that such help would only encourage larger families and increase population, continued Malthus, is that supply of workers becomes greater than the demand. This results, said Malthus, in enemployment, low wages, and unending poverty. Malthus concluded that lowering the birth rate was the only effective way of combating poverty.
Therefore, Malthus advocated, among other solutions that we called “moral restraint and vice”, to check population growth. And I do agree Malthus proposal that these solutions would apply only to the poor and working class. A strategy called late marriage and sexual abstinence to control population.
Sa ating Lipunan, maraming kababaihan ang nagpalaglag o nag –papa-abort dahil hindi nila kayang panindigan at kayang tustusan ang pangangailangan nang batang kanilang dinadala. Therefore, it is not the solution…. We put a stop to the use of term “Reproductive Health”. To stop population growth, let us help each other and considering Malthus theory to apply it in our everyday life that “Population control is simply not the solution to Poverty!!”
Kahirapan, isang palasak na salita na naririnig, nababasa at nararanasan ng maraming tao hindi lamang sa Pilipinas kundi sa halos lahat ng sulok ng daigdig. Maraming dahilan ang kahirapan at hindi maikakailang isa sa mga dahilan nito ay ang "population increase". Ayon kay Thomas Malthus na siyang nagpanukala ng kaugnayan ng mabilis na paglaki ng populasyon sa suliraning pang-ekonomiko. Ang "control population" ang siyang primary solution na siyang bunga ng patuloy na paghihirap ng isang pamilya o pagbaba ng ekonomiya ng isang bansa. Ngunit ang naisip na solusyon ay hindi lahat mabuti ang dulot sa mga mamamayan sapagkat kaakibat nito ang pagkilala na gaya ng "abortion" at ang pagiging "engaged in premarital sex" sa mga kabataang wala pa sa tamang edad. Ngunit sa gaya ng ating bansa na hindi tinatangkilik ng nakararami ang panukalang "population control" lalo na ng ating simbahan ay imposible pang malulunasan ang suliranin ng tao ukol sa patuloy na pagdami ng populasyon. Gayunpaman gaya ng sabi sa Malthus Theory na kahit pa ipamudmod sa mga tao ang tungkol sa mga paraan ng "population control" ay hindi lahat tatangkilikin ng mga tao ang teorya ni Thomas Malthus. Magkagayunpaman ang hangarin ng isang tao na mapaunlad ang kanyang sarili ang unang hakbang upang makatikim ng kaginhawaan sa buhay. Ang pagsusumikap na matugunan ang pangangailangan ang simula ng pagpupunyagi upang matamo ang hinahanap na kaunlaran. Samakatuwid ano pa mang lumabas na mga iba't ibang "Methods" o "Theory" na natutungkol sa "Population control" ay wala pa ring hihigit kung simulan ang pagbabago sa sarili at kung maaari ay imulat ito sa buong pamilya. Makikita na ang epekto nito ay parang apoy na kakalat, hindi lamang sa sarili kundi sa buong pamayanan at bansa.
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Phillipines is the main country that had been takled about in this blog.At the 11th sayings of the paragraph, i had seen that Phillipines is suffering in over-population and also in food.
I was really shoked in Malthus's succes in his theory.Well though it was a good weapon to kill the problem in the economy.I was wondering,because people believe that if a couple made more than 2 child,it would make our labor force strong and it would make the economy more upgraded and richer.But the real problem of the country Phillipines is over-population and not enough foods for every family to eat,and in this part i can say that the Malthus theory is a great problem disposer of the problem in the Phillipino people.
2 child policy is ok but not abortion.We Phillipinos just need discipline and need to work hard to make this theory to be succesful. We need family planning now in this type of a problem.
Many teenagers now are very concious of this word "SEX" that happened to be a marrying age doings but now its a habbit of every een that is concious at the first but had ben addicted at the second.Thats a big problem to our economy,in economic point of view it can be a very very very bad activity of each mankind in Phills and also it can add more babies to our population that causes over-population to our country and each baby will conquer a land if they had their own family,if a land is used to make some good and ideal foods and rice crops then what would happen to this lands if every family will conquer it? Then it would us to make a food storage to make every Phill to eat,and thats not a valid reason sir!!...
DISCIPLINE is what i want to say to each and eceryone of us!!! If u can discpiline your self then our sons,daughters and also our other family parts will not follow Malthus anymore because we know how to make our country more improved and also we can manage our foods and we can overwhelm this problem named "OVER-POPULATION" if we Phillipinos will know how to discipline ourselves.
Para lang sa akin ay dapat nating idisiplina ang sarili natin para mwala itong problema sa ating bansa at di tayu nagpopoproblema sa pagkain dahil sa naoobserbahan ko sa ating bansa ay unti-unti nang bumabagsak at wala nang pag-angat.Kung nasa atin iyong disiplina ay hindi mangyayari ito, dahil kung disiplinado tayo ay alam na natin kung anu ang gagawin at kung anu ang mangyayari sa ating ginagawa para sa ating bansa at lalo na sa mga opisyales natin na nangungurapsyon ay dapat tumigil na.At akala ko demokratikong bansa ito,dahil hindi na naririnig ng mga opisyales ang sigaw ng ating bayan.
DISIPLINA lamang at kung kaya nyo ito ay pwede nang hindi sundin ang teorya ni MALTHUS...
I agree for the Malthus theory because over populated country can affect the economic progress.
I also agree that sex education is very important to know to the youth to become more conscious about sex and to be aware of these kind of situation and also to knowledgeable and not to be an ignorant person about sex.
I agree about the Malthusian theory about two child policy and sex education so that minors can realize how important to study than entering a relationships.
He is concerned in this three things:The overproduction of young; the inability of resources to keep up with the rising human population; and the irresponsibility of the lower classes.
I thought why he made this article because that problems,so he made that solutions to help the people to be progressive.
And because of that theory,and the solutions in the problems,it has a big contribution for the people and for the country.
>Sumasangayon ako sa sex education na inilathala ni MALTHUS para hindi maging ignorante ang mga kabataan ngayon. Ngunit nararapat din na marunong tayong mag kontrol, at marunong maglimita. Sabi nga nila, ang isang dahilan ng pagkabuntis ng mga kababaihan ngayon ay ang pag kakaroon ng kasintahan. Ngunit kung marunong namang mga limita at mag kontrol ay hindi naman iyon nangyayari. kailangan lang natin ng disiplina sa sarili para ma overcome natin ang problemang ito ng ating bansa. Isa itong malaking kontribusyon sa atin.
i agree to the" malthus" theory government agency with primary responsibility for controlling population growth because of continued and rapid population growth in the philippines in that case it can affect the economic to our society
the two child policy like in other country they promote this kind of policy why because of the economic point mof view of the people(halimbawa na rin sa mga magulang na ayaw nilang magkaroon ng maraming anak dahil sa madadagdagan na man ang kanilang mga kakailanganin o gastusin o kayanaman nag family planning).
I AM REFERRING TO THE ANTI-LIFE AND ANTI-family advocates who seem not to run out of clever ways to insert their Western-based agenda into every conceivable legislation they can think of. Now they would have 21 bills of various concerns consolidated into an omnibus law covering reproductive health, population policy, two-child policy and sex education for the youth. Of the bills, at least three promote the use of artificial contraception in the guise of promoting “women’s health.”
thats all i can say thank you!!!
today our country is very populated and we are facing the most annoying crisis and we are very much affected on this. for me, they should implement that 2 child policy to lessen our population for the following generation. Philippines is a small country but it contains millions of people living in our country thats why some of our product like ice, gasoline and etc. are increasing their prices.
for the womens health, mother should give birth to a child for only 2 to 3times only because if they will not follow that limitation, there will be a possibility that the mother will die because of the thinning of the uterus which leads to bleeding. and also the senate bill 319 which seeks to ban abortive drugs and devices. we should also implement his because abortion is prohibited in our county but there are some mother or women who do this kind of a crime. a baby has a right to live but some of the mother or women think that today is the most annoying crisis and they don't have enough money to sustain the needs of their baby.
the last but not the least, the sex education for the youth. yes, this is also very important because some of the teenager today are facing or experiencing pregnancy. our youth today are not aware if what would happen to them if they will do that sex. they are not thinking if what will be their future because of course, if you are pregnant you will stop going to school. and sad to say that most of the teenager or youth today are doing abortion because they are afraid that their parents will know that they are pregnant, it is because our parents are afraid that we will never be successful in our life in the future.
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Base on my economic point of view, the proposal of Malthus about the solution to control the population which are the population policy, sex education for the youth, late marriage and two child policy is a good idea and I agree with this proposal but I disagree that abortion and taking drugs to kill an innocent fetus is the solution to this kind of problem. We know that killing an innocent baby is a big sin and there are lots of ways to solve this problem. Now a day, we know that many people are jobless and others don’t have food to eat, if we will not make a move out of this population growth problem then there is a tendency that all of us will suffer and our food supply will decrease and we know that all of us need food to survive. The proposal about the population policy is a good idea. To solve this problem let us start in the number of children in a family, many Filipinos have many children in a family but the parents don’t have job. This is one of the problems in the Philippines because this adds to the country’s population and the number of consumer of goods that would eventually make the food supply decrease that might lead to the scarcity of food. The policy of two children is good because it avoids the increasing of population growth and the problem of food supply. But abortion and taking drugs is not the solution. Why should we kill unborn baby just to lessen the population growth if there are so many ways available to avoid it? One of these solutions is having a family planning. Late marriage is good but when a mother gets pregnant there would be a tendency that she will have a problem in delivering the baby due to her age. It is good also to impose sex education to the youth because if they know what is the effect of indulging themselves to sex in an early age, they would have an idea of what they should do and what is right and wrong.
For me, I don't believe that birth control is the only thing that can make us successful in the economic point of view. We all know that implementing this kind of matter is not acceptable in our religion. God had once said "go to the world and multiply", so, it is clearly stated that it opposes towards birth control like using contraceptives, pills and committing abortion.
It is good to have more human resources in our country for it will be a big help for the improvement and development for our country. More hands or more human resources means strong and rich economy.
But,as what we have observed Philippines is very populated and is considered as the 12th most populous country in the world. We should have a rich and strong economy, but look us now. We are on the other side of what we have imagined to be. We are lucky to have many resources but we did not use it wisely and thus it causes our downfall. We, Filipinos, should have a strong bind of forces to achieve our goals- that Philippines will be successful. Let us all help one another for the future generation.
Poverty and Population Growth are just two of the common problems in our country. Our country now is suffering these kind of problems because Filipinos are not using family planning some of us Filipinos are not thinking of our future most of us is now fun of having "SEX" even teenagers are doing these kind of physical interaction without thinking of the result of what they are doing.
So in relation with Malthus Theory i agree with him that our government should have a law of controlling population and should promote contraceptives. In this way we can manage the population growth here in our country. Example incase that a couple had "SEX" already and the girl is already pregnant and they cannot afford to have another baby because of poverty the best way is to abort the baby eventhough this is against the church's law but the couple are just thinking that if they accept the baby it will just suffer and die because his/her parents can't provide his/her needs. So contraceptives should be promoted in our country.
And finaly in relation with my reaction about malthus theory. I had made my over all view of these reaction that our Government should make a law of using family planning in a certain comunity or family to help our countries economy and to avoid the Growth of population here in Philippines and to avoid Poverty problem.
Basically, I agree with the Malthusian theory about the population growth and the birth control. Many teenagers, most commonly in developed countries, receive some form of sex education in school. What information should be provided in such programs is hotly contested, especially in the United States and Great Britain. Possible topics include reproductive anatomy, human sexual behavior, information on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), social aspects of sexual interaction, negotiating skills intended to help teens follow through with a decision to remain abstinent or to use birth control during sex, and information on birth control methods.
Like in the developed countries they have this education wherein every individual is given the chance and the opportunity to know about the birth control. That's why the have the time to make their country progressive.
Here in the Philippines, we must learn to discipline ourselves in practicing birth control so that we can build a strong foundation of economy. Just like Malthus said, if the world’s population is increasing we will run out of food supply, leading to decrease of food per person.
Malthus regarded ideals of future improvement in the lot of humanity with scepticism, considering that throughout history a segment of every human population seemed relegated to poverty. He explained this phenomenon by pointing out that population growth generally preceded expansion of the population's resources, in particular the primary resource of food.
That theory will be a great help and aid to our society at this time, especially we are in the Third World Countries.
Posted by: Jovenn Mark Lubguban
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