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2017-05-15 Africa North

Egyptian MP proposes punishing parents with more than three children

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Posted by Fred 2017-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 How about just when those children go apeshit?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-15 00:19|| 2017-05-15 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Best to do that for more than zero children.
Want kids? Pay for them yourself.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-15 06:35|| 2017-05-15 06:35|| Front Page Top

#3 More than 3 kids is self punishment.

Posted by AlanC 2017-05-15 11:06|| 2017-05-15 11:06|| Front Page Top

#4 More than 3 kids is self punishment.

It depends on the parents, and on the children. My mother thoroughly enjoyed deliberately having four in four years, and we enjoyed one another.

Egypt's birth rate had fallen to slightly above 3, then rose with the fortunes of the Muslim Brotherhood , per the CIA World Factbook. This ordinance would punish the Islamists, primarily the Muslim Brotherhood:

Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world and the third most populous country in Africa, behind Nigeria and Ethiopia. Most of the country is desert, so about 95% of the population is concentrated in a narrow strip of fertile land along the Nile River, which represents only about 5% of Egypt’s land area. Egypt’s rapid population growth – 46% between 1994 and 2014 – stresses limited natural resources, jobs, housing, sanitation, education, and health care.

Although the country’s total fertility rate (TFR) fell from roughly 5.5 children per woman in 1980 to just over 3 in the late 1990s, largely as a result of state-sponsored family planning programs, the population growth rate dropped more modestly because of decreased mortality rates and longer life expectancies. During the last decade, Egypt’s TFR decline stalled for several years and then reversed, reaching 3.6 in 2011, and has plateaued the last few years. Contraceptive use has held steady at about 60%, while preferences for larger families and early marriage may have strengthened in the wake of the recent 2011 revolution. The large cohort of women of or nearing childbearing age will sustain high population growth for the foreseeable future (an effect called population momentum).

Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-15 11:31|| 2017-05-15 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Nasser tried it in the 60es - barely survived.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-15 12:39|| 2017-05-15 12:39|| Front Page Top

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