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article: Women and Population by Erla Zwingle In third world countries the population is often an overflowing number. Women of countries such as Bangladesh are known to have several children. This is expected of them due to different cultural reasons. Many think that without many children the villages they live in will fade away.  However with the growing number in population there is also the growing problem of poverty. Families are already tight on money however they can have up to 7 children. With money already being hard to come by that many mouths to feed would certainly put people through many hard times. And it did, it still does. The poverty problem has not yet been resolved slowly the population problem is. The United Nations is currently working with other groups and organizations to help improve the problem. Population Council sends workers to over populated countries teaching the uses of contraceptives. Lessons on how to use condoms are given in the villages, and they are then distributed. In some villages women are more accepting of the idea of having less children. Many times it is not their choice but their husbands or the leader in the village who decides the number of children a women should have. Often they are just turning 20 when they already have 3 children. When organizations travel to villages they also teach the women about the idea of choice. That they have the ability to do what they want. Women who are more open to this are often given birth control pills to use as well.So many children born into those families are unwanted so they are treated poorly. By women realizes they have the choice to have as many or as few children as they want they are able to love all of their babies making the situation already improved. People have worked hard to keep down the number of children per family and have been very successful in the matter, poverty has lessened, but it is still out there. Many of the women are not working and single mothersmay have to send their children out to beg and some even have to resort to prostitution. A program called "Grameen" was set up in 1976 that allows women to borrow money. On average a person makes only $2 a day. This is actually a fair amount of money but not enough to feed so many mouths. The Grameen program lets women borrow money and pay it back little by little but at the same time she can care for her children. It is being seen now that more women accept contraceptives because they realize that the less children the more care they can give the ones they have.BRAC has made clinics throughout the Bangladesh country. Here women can go for lessons on contraceptives as well as receive some. And they can go there to get proper care when they are pregnant.  People are working to make a difference, they have not reached their goal yet but soon they hope to eliminate any population problems therefore wiping out poverty and giving the world peace. Summary By: Amanda Viveen The National Geographic October 1998 issue Click on the Table Of Contents To The Left To Go To:  The Facts`http://maxpages.com/worldwomen/links,Links Like This~ |
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