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1. The document discusses perspectives on ideal family size, with some favoring small families of 4 people or 2 children over large families of 5-6 or more children. Small families are believed to allow parents to enjoy life rather than be busy caring for many children. 2. The author believes an ideal family should have no more than 2 children. As a married man with 2 children, he feels this is enough and doesn't plan to have more, believing it's better to have 1-2 well-cared for children than 5-6 of uncertain future. 3. However, small families may be at a disadvantage if misfortune befalls the 1-2 children, as the parents will have no

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Family: Which Family Family Family With Family Family Wife, Favor Family Well Their Life in Family, All Life Life?

1. The document discusses perspectives on ideal family size, with some favoring small families of 4 people or 2 children over large families of 5-6 or more children. Small families are believed to allow parents to enjoy life rather than be busy caring for many children. 2. The author believes an ideal family should have no more than 2 children. As a married man with 2 children, he feels this is enough and doesn't plan to have more, believing it's better to have 1-2 well-cared for children than 5-6 of uncertain future. 3. However, small families may be at a disadvantage if misfortune befalls the 1-2 children, as the parents will have no

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1. In our century, much has been talked about an ideal family: which size of family rs considered ideal, a family with

or2 children or a big family with 5-6 or even 9-10

children? In European countries, an ideal family is a family which consists of 4 people, the
husband, the wife, and theirtwo- children. The reason why they favor a small family is not

entirely because they are not well off enough to provide their children with a good material

life but because they conceive that to.live means to enjoy life. If, in a family, the parents
are busy all their life taking care ofJheir children, how can they have a happy life?

2.

ltl

am asked what size of family

I think is reasonable, I can frankly

say that

I am of the

same opinion as most of the Europeans when they hold that an

ideal family should never

have more than two children. To me, a small family has many advantages, especially in our

present situation. I am now a married man. I have two children, a boy and a girl. I think that
is enough for me. My wife and

I both go to work. About our material life,I do not think we

have any problem. Although we both are still in our late twenty, we never think of having more children. In my opinion, it is better to have one or two children, but the children are

well brought up than to have five or six children whose future we cannot sure of. Moreover,
as you

know, we are living in a country whose population is already quite thick. The

government with its policy of family planning and birth control always advises people to
have only one or two children to assure a happy life both in the family and the society. And,

with more than three children in a family, the parents certainly wiil have to toil and moil all
the year round to have food and clothes for rheir children.
3. However, a small famiiy may have several disadvantages.In fact, nobody knows rvhat

rvill

happen in the future. the parents

If

some misfornrne happens to a family with its one or two children,

will have no one to rely on in their old age. Whatever you may say, the pleasure

old people can enjoy is to see their children and grancichiidren grow up around them. To
have manv children, they

wiil not feel lonely and miserable because there is no one to take

care of them once they are no longer strong enough to work. And. some people now rhink that the more children a person has the happier he is in his oid age. Is this an out-of-date
COncePtiC:1 :

4. Everyone has his own ideas, As for me, f never agree to such a backrvard conception.

small family, to me, always has a better chance to be a happv family, and the parents do not have to perpefually struggie against poverty and other family tragedies as what has been commonly seen in a big family.

AUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

l.

How many children are there in your family? Do you feel happy when living among many brothers and sisters? Who do you love the most,
-v-'our

so

iather or your mother?

Do you want to stop ai nvo children although the two are either boys or girls? Your material

life is gocd enough to feed raore *ran three children. \\totiirj 1cu iike ro stop at two?
J, What should you do once your

famiiy planning has been broken? Do you want to keep the

baby or get abortion?

4. With two children, how older is one thar the other, in your opinion? 5. A family rvithout children is a happy family, isn't it? If you have two children, a boy and a
girl, do you think rvhich one will take more care of you than the other when you get older?

6. How does a large family affect living conditions, the envkonment, and the society of a
country?

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