Wow.
Just wow
I just thought I was being innovative and progressive?
It is overpopulation that's the problem in these places. Why not treat the problem at the very start? Free contraceptives? Sounds like a great idea to me anyway.
See ya's.
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Wow.
Just wow
I just thought I was being innovative and progressive?
It is overpopulation that's the problem in these places. Why not treat the problem at the very start? Free contraceptives? Sounds like a great idea to me anyway.
See ya's.
We have sponsored two girls over the last twenty odd years from other Countries - from age 11 until adulthood.This is something that we have always wanted to do for many years, and we have many made our commitment in sponsoring a child in need, he is a young boy living in the Philippines, (4 years old).
We are not extremely wealthy, but considering giving up $50 a month can help someone's basic needs, that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
We believe that in order to gain, you must first be able to learn to give.
Given many of us here have the ability to help others, please do consider giving a helping hand, one way or another. Financially or in other ways.
There is already too much grief in this world, your help might just bring a ray of light in someone's lives
LOL!Controversial but I don't like donating to humans, I think we are the worst thing that ever happened to the earth and there should be less of us not more. I prefer to donate to help wildlife and the environment and try and fix the atrocities humans are committing to the earth. Maybe I'll soften my beliefs as I get older...
Actually in a lot of places this would be very well received. My sister ( a doc) did some volunteer work for Voluntary Services Abroad. The programme works like this - young fellow docs fund-raise for a year, then bring the money to a hospital (in Kenya in my sister's case I think ) and do volunteer work for a few months. They decide when they are there how best to spend the money and are very careful about this. After a month or so my sister and her friends approached a particular local doctor they trusted for advice. Half the money bought a new van so that outreach clinics could be run again (hadn't been run for over a year since last van died), the other went to a one day sterilization clinic for women. Despite the fact that there was very little advertising and notice, they had women queuing around the block for the op when was not carried out in circumstances we could consider comfortable.
Women being able to control their fertility is a necessary first step towards prosperity in my opinion..
Personally I will not donate to Catholic charities because I strongly disagree with their approach to contraception, and I think Catholic lobbying to prevent poor women accessing contraception (e.g. in the Philippines) is a disgrace.
It would make much more sense, be cheaper, safer and easier to sterilise the men wouldn't it? However I suppose in these places It's always going to have to be the women who undergo the procedure as the women are regarded as inferior?
Birth rates generally go down naturally once standard of living and life expectancy improves. This has been proven.
Going around sterilising people seems a bit pointless. Such measures have never been required in history and could never be widespread enough to make a sufficient difference.
It also annoys me so much when privileged people in developed countries talk about overpopulation. The population itself isn't the problem - the problem is the distribution and consumption of resources (or overconsumption, in our case). If you have your own biological children, don't talk about overpopulation. It makes you look very silly
Personally, I don't like multinational NGOs and in most cases, don't support them. If I donate money, I prefer to give to grassroots, local charities that don't have millionaire CEOs. I also refuse to donate to anything with a religious affiliation.
Birth rates generally go down naturally once standard of living and life expectancy improves. This has been proven.
Going around sterilising people seems a bit pointless. Such measures have never been required in history and could never be widespread enough to make a sufficient difference.
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It also annoys me so much when privileged people in developed countries talk about overpopulation. The population itself isn't the problem - the problem is the distribution and consumption of resources (or overconsumption, in our case). If you have your own biological children, don't talk about overpopulation. It makes you look very silly
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If you have your own biological children, don't talk about overpopulation. It makes you look very silly
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I'm sure they'd like the option but with over two-thirds of the world's population in developing countries, it's not physically possible. It would be extremely difficult to even offer the option to 10% of them.Once a couple has had all the kids they want, whats wrong with sterilisation? It's what me and the wife choose to do, and I got done, as it's so easy for the bloke, and it's only fair after all the things my wife has put up with. I'd bet that people in third world countries would love to have the option if it was free. And the sooner they get the birthrates under control, the sooner they can improve their standards of living.
Can you please explain the link between population and a country's wealth? I don't see it.There are plenty of third world countries who won't ever be wealthy countries because they are already so overpopulated.
You can't care too much about it if it didn't influence your decision.So only childless people can discuss overpopulation? How bloody ridiculous!
There is a reasonable inverse correlation between population size and wealth if you consider it on a per capita basis.
i think I will be cancelling my surf life saving one?62% of all donations are spent on administration ??? that is crazy!
http://www.couriermail.com.au/busin...nistration-costs/story-e6freqmx-1226174582139
am ok with my vision aus one good on them
This is something that we have always wanted to do for many years, and we have many made our commitment in sponsoring a child in need, he is a young boy living in the Philippines, (4 years old).
We are not extremely wealthy, but considering giving up $50 a month can help someone's basic needs, that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
We believe that in order to gain, you must first be able to learn to give.
Given many of us here have the ability to help others, please do consider giving a helping hand, one way or another. Financially or in other ways.
There is already too much grief in this world, your help might just bring a ray of light in someone's lives
Mark, you do realise that's an entirely different argument? Fertility rate and population are not related. Niger has the highest fertility rate in the world but their population makes them the 63rd largest country in the world. That's quite a gap.
Birth rates generally go down naturally once standard of living and life expectancy improves. This has been proven.
Going around sterilising people seems a bit pointless. Such measures have never been required in history and could never be widespread enough to make a sufficient difference.
It also annoys me so much when privileged people in developed countries talk about overpopulation. The population itself isn't the problem - the problem is the distribution and consumption of resources (or overconsumption, in our case). If you have your own biological children, don't talk about overpopulation. It makes you look very silly
Personally, I don't like multinational NGOs and in most cases, don't support them. If I donate money, I prefer to give to grassroots, local charities that don't have millionaire CEOs. I also refuse to donate to anything with a religious affiliation.