Q&A: Rich, Poor, and Children
Rich, Poor, and Children
Question
By simple common sense, it seems logical to me that the life of a poor person is stressful and full of worry about basic survival and living conditions, so it would make sense for him to have fewer children.
Precisely the rich person has abundance and doesn’t worry about survival and living conditions (maybe about expansion and abundance, but hardly about the basics), and ostensibly can have many children because he has enough to support them comfortably.
Why is reality so often the opposite?
Why does the poor person have many children and the rich person limit them?
What’s the logic behind that?
Answer
This is a question in psychology and sociology. I’m really not the right address for it. Maybe economic well-being is more important to the rich person, and that’s why he is rich. So naturally he also has fewer children. The poor person places less importance on economic well-being. Of course there are many other reasons as well (such as awareness of family-planning options, level of religiosity, and the like).