The document discusses whether a child is an economic asset or burden. It argues that while traditionally a child was seen as an asset, viewing them solely as an investment ignores that their life is their own. A child is also an economic burden as parents take on full responsibility for their needs and care without expectation of direct benefits. However, children still bring emotional satisfaction and can be lifelong companions, so while they may not make economic sense, they remain precious. The key point is that every child is a gift from God, not an asset, and should be treasured as such.
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“Will the child be an economic asset or a burden to the family in a globalized world?”
The document discusses whether a child is an economic asset or burden. It argues that while traditionally a child was seen as an asset, viewing them solely as an investment ignores that their life is their own. A child is also an economic burden as parents take on full responsibility for their needs and care without expectation of direct benefits. However, children still bring emotional satisfaction and can be lifelong companions, so while they may not make economic sense, they remain precious. The key point is that every child is a gift from God, not an asset, and should be treasured as such.
The document discusses whether a child is an economic asset or burden. It argues that while traditionally a child was seen as an asset, viewing them solely as an investment ignores that their life is their own. A child is also an economic burden as parents take on full responsibility for their needs and care without expectation of direct benefits. However, children still bring emotional satisfaction and can be lifelong companions, so while they may not make economic sense, they remain precious. The key point is that every child is a gift from God, not an asset, and should be treasured as such.
burden to the family in a globalized world?” As what I have learned from my parents and in the religious aspect, a child is an economic asset to the family because it is considered as a sacred blessing from God and somehow the hope for the future. But as of this moment, the question that arises made me realized something and that of the word “asset” there because when we define asset it means a valuable or a useful thing which means we treat our child as someone whom we can benefited with. With that, it seems like we’re owning the life of our child, well in fact that it is his life and not ours. We have occupied ourselves entirely from the idea of valuing children for the later return of our investment in them. That is why, we routinely repudiate the idea that we should be at all independent on our children. And what I am trying to say is that a child is somehow an economic burden in relation to a person’s responsibilities because as we bear a child we gain another responsibility wherein we are liable for all their needs and must fulfill them but we are not doing all of this to get something in return. Because in the very first place we are the one engaging ourselves to this kind of responsibility and we are just paying the price by making that child to grow well. We must invest our love and care without expecting benefits from them. Also, they are economically burden in a way of increasing our population especially nowadays that we are of becoming a globalized world and prone to economic crisis and one of the developing countries yet. However, children are still precious in our eyes and an advantage in our life because we bear a child for our emotional satisfaction and emotional needs. Children may not make good economic sense anymore, but they can be our life-long companion and friends for they are much more frankly and reliable than a wife and a husband. At the root of however we deal with our collective crisis, whatever methods of restraint we eventually enact – and I think we will enact them so let them be good ones, that lead to a just and honorable society. Not only children contributes to economic burden but every one of us who mistakenly decides our paths but nevertheless, we must be reminded that – every child that we have is not an asset rather than a special present from God because every birth is a gift, and we must only treasure them more.