2018-11-06

A social dilemma in our Palestinian society ... 

I came across a post on social media calling for practicing more pressure on families to curb birthrate as much as possible to reduce global poverty. It also suggests certain punishment against those who don´t comply with the rule. 
Apparently, there are more having the issue I had suggested once about. But, punishing parents as such isn´t the solution. The process can be managed by introducing people to the implications; bringing many children under these circumstances will deny them many rights. 
The most important thing, it's evidently proven that a big percentage of those who have many children couldn't raise them well, they lost control over them to end up with a bad upbringing.
Although it plays somewhat instrumentally, threatening people with punishment isn't the perfect proposal to poverty problem, just make them automatically aware of the danger of bringing many children under the same roof, especially in poor or conflict-troubled areas. 
Here in Palestine, with the unpromising status quo, most of the current generation is still underage, which indicates that the remaining geographical space won´t absorb them in the next years. If we make a quick account considering those children will get married when they grow up and then bring more, this will create population inflation in the remaining area that is being shrunk under the Israeli occupation. 
A map clarifies the West Bank which divided
into areas A, B, and C. Source: ScienceDirect
Basically, Palestinians are allowed to expand only within areas (A) and (B), which cover a tiny area surrounded by area (C) from all directions, which represents 60% of the West Bank entirely and under the Israeli military rule. It´s a geographic classification was enacted in Oslo Accords. 

The costs of real-estates are skyrocketing, which means that there won´t be available places or flats for each individual to be able to establish his own family. He´ll finally go to live at his family´s house and maybe another brother would do the same. Thus, this house will be very packed and unbearable for the living, they will undoubtedly end up making troubles due to the challenges surround them.
Not to mention, the overwhelming culture here still imposes on people to bring as many children as possible, and sometimes for certain reasons, when the child is female, women might be required to get into this process over and over again until the child is male. I can imagine if she has failed to get it successfully maybe after 6 times, this guy will get stuck with a big burden because of tough social rules. Indeed, it has happened lots of times, and it must stop! We are in need of a well-educated and skilled generation. To achieve this, we are required to organize birthrate to make the familial situation controllable. 

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