Born by accident

GERMANY: This is with reference to Naveen Naqvi’s article “Born by accident” (July 22). I see a couple of flaws in her thinking that prompted her to write such an article.

There is a hormonal-physical-axis and it’s not about producing children alone. Your article should have directly addressed the over-population issue (I feel you wanted it that way, but somehow lost the thought process). Families who have 5 children and more surely have a plan. They are thinking at future bread-winners for the family. While we don’t like paying taxes and the governments are corrupt, there are no serious old-age benefits across the board or/and efforts to develop a successful family planning project. Socially people are insecure…hence five children and more, and please only males.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 26^th, 2010.