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In many parts of the world, families were larger in the past because people had more children. Do you think there were more advantages or disadvantages to being part of a large family in the past?

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Family is the starting point of
education
. In the past, people considered that having
big family
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a big family
 was beneficial for teaching children about empathy and collaboration.
Although
 it is conceivable that working together can be taught through relatives, we have to realize that having too large family will
also
 contribute for some drawbacks.
First
 and foremost, parents who have too many children will have impediments
for
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to
 giving the best formal
education
 for their kids.
This
 is because every school requires
fund
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funding
 and tuition fees.
For instance
, in Indonesia, people have to spend more than 5 million a year
for
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in
 school, not to mention the payment for entrance, uniform, books, and study tour. If one family
have
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has
 5 kids,
hence
 they have to spend more than 25 million a year for
education
. In other hand, with
average salary
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average salaries
the average salary
an average salary
 in
Indonesia ranging
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Indonesia, ranging
 between 2-3 million in a month, parents will have no ability to pay the school.
Consequently
, many students are
dropout
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drop out
 or reach the lower level of
education
 and prosperity.
Second
, Indonesia is the five biggest
country
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countries
 in
population
. High
population
 will have a detrimental effect not only on the thrive for living but
also
 on sustainability. As Malthus said that while
population
 grows up exponentially,
food
 increases linearly, so there will be a threat
for
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to
food
 supply in the future.
Otherwise we
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Otherwise, we
 control the birth rate, our
next
 generation will burden the risk of competing for
job
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jobs
a job
the job
 and
food
.
In addition
, since people producing more
food
 and products without considering the environment,
this
 will absolutely harm the nature. As a conclusion, the disadvantages of having big family overweight the benefits due to the impact
for
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of
 the level of
education
 and environment sustainability.
Hence
, control the number of
population
 through small family campaign might be the answer
of
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to
 the problems.
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