Single child families

I grew up with two younger brothers and a younger sister so when I first started reading this article I was a little biased. I guess I have always figured life in a single child family as a bit boring, at least for the child. My parents also grew up in multiple children homes; my mom had two sisters and three brothers while my father had two brothers and a sister as well. During family get-togethers on either side the reunions are so big the house reminds me of the scene at Best Buy during black Friday. Even though I’ve never really put serious thought into it and am not planning on having any children anytime soon, I’ve always pictured or rather wanted a big family, a family that can fill up my house during family reunions in my eventual old age. Even though I said in class that I wanted 3 kids, I have said in the past that I wanted 5.
I know that I’m not a parent and my perspective on life right now is different than that of a parent. I also recognize parenting is extremely hard and that even after one child my opinion could change but I think I would be willing to make that sacrifice. I have also been aware of the whole population/environmental issue for some time and I do realize the circumstances that are at stake but I think there are other solutions. I think that if I’m only going to be on earth for a limited amount of time, I’d rather spend that time with a whole bunch of my family. Seeing as to how I believe raising a strong family is the one of the most important aspects of life. It’s all you have sometimes.
That said, I think that there is not much we can do about the population issue anyways. Our current numbers have already been noticeably detrimental to our plant and people are going to keep reproducing all over the world anyways. The population is going to keep growing almost exponentially and having uniform single child families throughout the world would merely slow it down, and not with great effect. Environmentally speaking what we need to do is not only control the way we live now by living more efficiently we need educate others outside of our country and culture on living more energy efficiently also. The US has realized their environmental issues and is tip toeing its way into a “greener” future but countries with rising numbers of people need to realize this too. The whole world needs to takes these steps into a green future, although we may not have planned on this environmental catastrophe, we need to adapt to it.