There is an increasing trend around the world to have a small family rather than a large family. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a small family rather than a large family?

In recent times, there has been a move towards having small family

unit

as opposed to

large family

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a large family

large families

. The exigencies of the modern times

has made

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have made

it so given that small family is easier to run and maintain and its cost effective

however

it has its drawbacks. A typical small families consist of a mother, father and a 

child

or two children.

This

small size of

family

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a family

is beneficial because its easy to run and maintain. The cost of school fees, feeding and taking

care

of the basic necessities of a

child

has greatly increased in recent times. Small family

therefore

becomes desirable as the parents can easily train their

child

to any educational level thereby giving them

quality education

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a quality education

and can

also

afford to provide quality lifestyle for their

child

.

Also

the government will benefit from the small

unit

of

family

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the family

as the

child

support the government provides for each

child

will be less and the social amenities will not be over stretched. 

On the other hand

, while small family

unit

is attractive, it can have

it's

of a thing, of it; possessive form of "it"

its

negative impact on the population of a country as the population will decrease in the long run.

Also

increase in small family

unit

will lead to less workforce and labour.  As the parents

gets

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get

older, the younger population may not be enough to fill in the vacancies and labour requirements left by the older generation and

this

in turn will affect the economy of the country negatively.

Furthermore

, the life of a

child

is not guaranteed and if

peradventure

a parent loses their only

child

,

this

can be traumatic and will render the parents childless and if 

child

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the child

grows and decides not to take

care

of his/her parents,

this

can

also

send the parents to an early

grave especially

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grave, especially

in our African setting where there are no facilities to take

care

of old people and parents rely on their children to take

care

of them.  In conclusion, though a small sized family is desirable, it can lead to low

work force

the force of workers available

workforce

in the long

run which

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run, which

will affect the economy and the parents stands a greater risk of being childless if they lose their only

child

.