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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1157 words (4.63 pages) in the essay titled Why do people want children “What are really the reasons behind why people want children?”Why do people want children? This question may seem a bit trivial, but when you take into affect the millions of people that have children each day the question quickly takes on a new light. This is not just merely a personal question that affects only a few individuals, it is much larger than that because it affects and dictates the whole human population. This issue clearly becomes more important when this is taken into account. The question of why people want children is well exemplified in Bernard R. Berelson’s essay “The Value Of Children: A Taxonomical Essay.” Berelson examines all the major reasons that people would want to have children one-by-one. Berelson opens with the first reason of biological. He asks questions like, “do people innately want children for some built-in reason of physiology? Is there anything to maternal instinct, or parental instinct? Or is biology satisfied with the sex instinct as the way to assure continuity”(220)? Berelson tries to answer these questions by comparing babies to adults and also the reaction that adults have to babies. Berelson states the fact that babies look absolutely different from adults. They have big heads, large foreheads, eyes almost in the center of their head because of their large forehead, and they are very fat compared to adults. This is why Berelson believes that this “babyishness” triggers something inside of man that causes him to wa... |
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Keywords: larger than that, sex instinct, maternal instinct, parental instinct, adults, having children, babies, social traditions, personal question, human population, political side, gain power, dictate, forehead, continuity, physiology, triggers