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It is hard to say for me given that I am not very familiar with the situation. I met a guy who had a wife who were born in favelas. They do not live now in Braz

It is hard to say for me given that I am not very familiar with the situation. I met a guy who had a wife who were born in favelas. They do not live now in Brazil, just visit once a year. I do not know how much of it is factually correct, so please set me right if something of this is wrong. First of he explained that Brazilian education system gets you trapped. While universities are free, the basic education is either expensive or so bad that it would not allow children to get into universities. So if you are born in favela, you can not get out of it based on your education. If this is like this by design and intentional, or just out of stupidity, I do not know. But I would conclude from this that also that there exists no social pressure in this community to get out of it as it is possibly regarded as almost impossible. Second he explained that her wife went through serious hardship during the school age, as the school meal was for her only way to get something to eat. I would conclude from this that I could be that actually the children are not such a burden for parents in favelas - school system keeps them alive, they do not die from hunger and nobody gets blamed. Third the average temperature in Rio is constantly >= 20 C. This means that nobody really has to prepare for prolonged period of cold. Nobody will die because they do not have proper housing or can not pay for the heating or have proper clothes. Based on these 3 pieces of information I would the kids are for them not a burden, at least not in a sense I considered, in addition there is currently no force that would motivate to improve the situation. So the solution would be more complicated. At least they are not motivated in children because of economical gains and it would possibly make the solution simpler. PS. Please not the this is just an argumentation based on these small pieces of information. I would recommend to look up if there are some studies that would clarify this situation in a more systematic manner. Also I am certainly not claiming that this opinion piece reflects actual truth.

speeder 10y ago
São Paulo right now, is having a problem of kids on schools not getting enough food. Rio is just fucked up, the government right now is with a debt of about 500 million USD in unpaid wages to common state employees (teachers, cooks, janitors, etc...) In some places, there are not even enough schools in first place. Yet, people pump kids out like there is no tomorrow, I don't know why is that, people even make TV programs out of it, kinda like exploiting the poor by showing their bizareness on TV, like when they showed a family with 12 kids or something like that, where the older kids had to take care of newborns, and both parents combined and all welfare combined gave them in total about 300 USD month. So how you put stop to that without resorting to extreme means? I know no viable solution. All known plans toward that, ended being labelled as evil in some way (for example there are various theories that Swedish flu vaccines that caused diseases in young people were intentional culling of population, similarly many people believe that divorce laws, abortion, etc... is similarly some kind of evil plan to cull population).
- eveningcoffee 10y ago
  Has there been any survey to figure out why is it like that? I think that it does not hurt and ask the questions from sizeable enough population sample to make some conclusions. Or is it avoided by some reason? I know that Catholic Church has a lot of influence over South America, can this be related to this? I think that it is actually very important to every individual on Earth to figure this out as more we have people on Earth the less can be shared among us and is there space for other species.

speeder 10y ago

São Paulo right now, is having a problem of kids on schools not getting enough food. Rio is just fucked up, the government right now is with a debt of about 500 million USD in unpaid wages to common state employees (teachers, cooks, janitors, etc...) In some places, there are not even enough schools in first place. Yet, people pump kids out like there is no tomorrow, I don't know why is that, people even make TV programs out of it, kinda like exploiting the poor by showing their bizareness on TV, like when they showed a family with 12 kids or something like that, where the older kids had to take care of newborns, and both parents combined and all welfare combined gave them in total about 300 USD month. So how you put stop to that without resorting to extreme means? I know no viable solution. All known plans toward that, ended being labelled as evil in some way (for example there are various theories that Swedish flu vaccines that caused diseases in young people were intentional culling of population, similarly many people believe that divorce laws, abortion, etc... is similarly some kind of evil plan to cull population).

eveningcoffee 10y ago
Has there been any survey to figure out why is it like that? I think that it does not hurt and ask the questions from sizeable enough population sample to make some conclusions. Or is it avoided by some reason? I know that Catholic Church has a lot of influence over South America, can this be related to this? I think that it is actually very important to every individual on Earth to figure this out as more we have people on Earth the less can be shared among us and is there space for other species.