Global demography

 Rural communities often welcome an extra hand to help in crop cultivation, particularly during
the planting and harvesting season.
 The poorer districts of urban centers also tend to have families with more children because the
success of their “small family business” depends on how many of their members can be hawking
their wares on the streets.
 Urbanized, educated, and professional families with two incomes, however, desire just one or
two progenies.
 These families also have their sights on long-term savings plan. They set aside significant parts of
their incomes for their retirement, health care, and the future education of their children/child.
 Rural families view multiple children and large kinship networks as critical investments.
 Urban families, however may not have the same kinship network anymore because couples live
on their own, or because they move out of the farmland. It is usually the basic family unit that is
left to deal with life’s challenges on its own.