cibaeño75 previously said:

"Well, that could be put on the stubborness department. People here are way too attached to their ways for their own good, you know."

It can't happen overnight but for it to happen quickly the population would have to be mobilized much in the same way the cuban population was when they set out to eradicate illiteracy. The colleges were closed and students went into the country side. Things of that nature are needed, a societal effort. Unfortunately the will to properly educate the Dominican population does not exist among those who currently formulate policy.

Note that I do not support the Castro regime in Cuba but like many have said on these forums there are indeed things that we can learn from them.

haitiangirl215 previously said:

uhm excuse me bitch. i'm haitian and you need to apologize because you do not here me complaining how these dominicans CANT DO HAIR!!!! THEY BURN THEM but do not get me wrong my grandmother is half dominican so i love dominican people just not he kinds like you who talk about other nations

buenoha previously said:

How can it be that so little family planning is done in poor communities?

How can a poor man have up to 4 to 7 children, and many times with different women? How can a poor woman have more than one child, knowing that she will not be able to provide good feeding/health care/education?

Don't people understand that children cost money for responsible parents? A likely way of getting out of poverty is for poor people to have smaller families. That way the little money they have will be at least sufficient to bring up the children in a decent way. These children will perhaps be able to break the poverty tradition of their family, as their upbringing would be less precarious than that of children from bigger, poor families.

Do you guys think that the DR should have a one child policy like China for poor families? In China many people have benefitted from that and some economists attribute the decrease in poverty in China to this policy.

Perhaps a two-child policy would be beneficial to the DR as well... I know it sounds a little communist, lol, but it could be a good thing.

Manhattanite previously said:

Part of what will make the next few decades interesting times is the demographic disaster some nations have created for themselves the world over either by this kind of social engineering or by simply being too spoiled to raise kids. I think this will result in outcomes like vicious intergenerational political battles when the bills come due on pensions, to increased bloody wars in certain parts of the world, and even in some cases to erosion of some core societal advancements of the Western world and its satellies.

I can get behind calls for more education on family planning, but definitely not behind state legislation of family size, or sterilization, or anything down that path. Population control has questionable long term outcomes, and it isn't consistent with becoming and remaining a vibrant, thriving nation.