Iran in drive to encourage couples to have more children

[Backbencher]

Wonder when will the Indian government start such moves , maybe never !!

 

[canadian icehole]

I'm standing in this sentence. What is important for me and my country, is this sentence.

Sooooo what you're saying is that the message of maintaining population at XYZ levels interests you rather than the video's Call-to-Arms message.

Frankly the message of "please produce enough children" isn't being heard among developed nations. I don't know about the validity of the video's claim that no civilization can recover from a fertility rate of 1.3 when relying on natural births. However, I can see a way out but it requires violating one's own religious values (well at least among Christians) via artificial womb. I don't think anyone is putting efforts into that technology.

 

[mohsen]

"child-producing", "reduce the gaps in pregnancy to only two years"

Sickening

yeah, this is the kind of articles we see from western media, even true news will be manipulated, they wont hesitate any chance for insulting Iranian.
the term "childbearing" is replaced with "child-producing", obviously it can't be a mistake.

here is the original article from farsnews and it's translation:
http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13920130000225
Google Translate
see the difference yourself.

 

[Shahin Vatani]

This is a good move. Iran is a large country and should have a higher population then 80 million. We just need to make sure the infrastructure is in place to support the higher population levels.

We also do not want to get to a place like Japan or Europe where we have too many old people and need to allow emigration into the country.

 

[Echo_419]

Damn the Iranins are lucky they have to persuade the People to have more children

 

[The SiLent crY]

Iran in drive to encourage couples to have more children


Iran has launched a house-to-house health education drive to persuade couples to have more children in a move aimed at engineering a baby boom and more than doubling its population.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last year labelled the £10 billion family planning policy a mistake Photo: AFP/GETTY

The health ministry is deploying some 150,000 officers to promote the benefits of marriage and urge single-child couples to expand their families.

Medical faculties in the country's universities have also been instructed to introduce courses on increasing the population, which will be closely monitored by health ministry officials.

The initiative reverses a 20-year state-sanctioned birth control policy that afforded easy access to a range of contraceptive measures – including vasectomies and condoms – and provided statutory family-planning to newly-weds.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, ordered the abolition of the £10 billion family planning budget last year after labelling the policy a mistake and calling for the country's population – currently around 75 million – to rise to 150 million.

Mohammad Ismail Motlagh, general manager of the health ministry's family, school health and population programme, said the main goal was to encourage couples to avoid producing single-child families, which he said was leading to "social and emotional problems".

"In the marriage training course, we have focused more on the child-producing because the single-child issue has caused so many problems and provoked much debate," he told the semi-official Fars news agency.

"For this reason, I am suggesting that families should have more than one child and reduce the gaps in pregnancy to only two years. If the pregnancy gaps exceed two years, couples should revise their methods and make plans in this regard."

Iran originally introduced family planning following a population explosion in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution. The programme has been criticised by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has said it weakened the country ability to compete with the West.

Iran in drive to encourage couples to have more children - Telegraph

What the Fvck ?

please NO , NO , NO O NO NO

Iranians made this mistake after the revolution and our youth paying it's price now . we've already have the problem of unemployment , poverty and countless other problems that are the reasons of doubling our population by imam Khomeini's order .

Unfortunately this idea has come from the mind of shia leaders in Iran as they think the population growth of shias should increase in order not to get behind from Sunnis .

They're asking people to be like Arabs and have dozens of children in their families while most of the Iranians are civilized and educated and never gonna make same mistake again . I hope we focus on quality not quantity .

 

[Doritos11]

lol

Arabs do not have many Kids, look at the land area of Arabs and the population is only 350 milion.
Pakistan alone is 160 million, nigeria is 180 million.

Iran is 70 million only comparable to Egypt 80-85 million.

 

[Homajon]

Unfortunately this idea has come from the mind of shia leaders in Iran as they think the population growth of shias should increase in order not to get behind from Sunnis .

Can you provide a source for that?

 

[SOHEIL]

What the Fvck ?

please NO , NO , NO O NO NO

Iranians made this mistake after the revolution and our youth paying it's price now . we've already have the problem of unemployment , poverty and countless other problems that are the reasons of doubling our population by imam Khomeini's order .

Unfortunately this idea has come from the mind of shia leaders in Iran as they think the population growth of shias should increase in order not to get behind from Sunnis .

They're asking people to be like Arabs and have dozens of children in their families while most of the Iranians are civilized and educated and never gonna make same mistake again . I hope we focus on quality not quantity .

WTF !?

 

[The SiLent crY]

Can you provide a source for that?

You're looking for the source ? search in the net and ask religious people to know what shia leaders have ordered .

 

[The SiLent crY]

WTF !?

Dude , why should we increase our pop while we can't manage current pop and certainly guarantee our children's future ?

we have 75 millions right now and if you open your eyes you'll see a huge percent of our youth ( especially educated ones ) are unemployed , getting married getting harder and harder for our youth which has brought debauchery in our society , most families can't afford the prices and etc .

 

[-SINAN-]

If you don't rise the young population now, 25 years later, your old population(+65) will surpass young population(+18).

 

[Abii]

If you don't rise the young population now, 25 years later, your old population(+65) will surpass young population(+18).

That's completely true

But I rather have that problem than become Bangladesh

 

[Hack-Hook]

Do you realise who the intended audience is for this video?

Not surprised about Canada, our news service already talked about the number of seniors (65+) have surpassed the number of children (everyone under 18).



They don't have a choice at this moment. If they do nothing they face the same conditions as India or try to manage it until there is sufficient resources.

they are milliard people , they have the options to encourage peoples to move to the area of the country that are less populated by invest more in those area and develop them . and china easily can manage milliard even more by changing that 1 child policy to 2 child policy they can stop their population decline

 

[Hack-Hook]

This is a good move. Iran is a large country and should have a higher population then 80 million. We just need to make sure the infrastructure is in place to support the higher population levels.

We also do not want to get to a place like Japan or Europe where we have too many old people and need to allow emigration into the country.

you are wrong , we have the land for more population but we don't have the infrastructure for it.
it seems you have never been to classes with 50 student and never had teachers who were too tired and frustrated to actually teach . right now our cities can't provide enough resources for more population , citieslike Tehran , Isfahan , Shiraz , Abadan and .... have water problem . in many areas we collected from wells so much that the level of water have gone down as much as*150 -*200m. we are importing our main food from other countries.

in short government if want to increase the population , they must first provide the infrastructure , they must have plans for providing for the newborn , their education , their jobs , ...... its wrong to say let's have more baby and the one who gave teeth also will give bread . I believe right now the priorities are totally wrong