He said that in particular, uneducated people were having too many children, and urged people to only have as many children as they could afford.
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Even Mr Yildirim, the imam, accepts that the right way to interpret the Koran is that one should have only as many children as can be adequately cared for.
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For many of the children, this is their only opportunity to eat.
Many have lost the wages not only of their children but of their women, who are constrained by custom and religion from working at stitching centres.
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And for many children here, that's the only chance they get to go to a school at all.
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In contrast, only children, who in theory share many characteristics with first borns, reported the highest instance of taking financial risks at least sometimes, 39 percent, such as borrowing for short-term investments, or investing in risky ventures.
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In a place where there were once only businessmen, there are now so many families and children that the neighbourhood baseball team has had to restrict applications.
So clapping and singing nursery rhymes with babies and toddlers may not only be what many parents do naturally but might also protect children against the effects of dyslexia further down the road a hypothesis it is hard to imagine having developed without the insights that came from peering directly into children's brains.
Thinking it was only natural to want to help children and grandchildren, many co-signed student loans.
But Hammerstein's version, which is just the right length for children, has since been performed onstage many times with only minor modifications.
Many villages, such as Kansera, only have primary schools, and children may have to travel far to go to secondary schools, she explained -- a situation that can render education difficult at best when walking is the only means of getting somewhere.
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"If someone kicks open my door and they're entering my home, I'd like as many bullets as I could to protect my children, and if I only have three, then the ability for me to protect my family is greatly diminished, " Bryant said.
That means she enjoyed many of the social benefits most children in the countryside or small cities can only envy.
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Many poorer families find that they can achieve their dream of educating their children only by taking on large debts.
In April, his government outraged aborigines and many non-indigenous Australians by claiming that, because only 10% of aboriginal children had been involved, the stolen generation did not really exist.
Since then, I've interviewed far too many parents whose children took their own lives because they felt like it was the only way out of the pain.
With 11 children and many more adults living in the simple mud home -- and only a few windows with glass panes -- it became clear that more needed to be done.
Many French parents I meet have an easy, calm authority with their children that I can only envy.
But many women don't want to wait that long to have children, or worse, have waited only to find heartbreak when they try and cannot get pregnant.
But perhaps this is the only way to find more time for a much-needed increase in PE and sport for many children without further overloading the curriculum?
I've looked too many parents in the eye who say, our children have these chronic diseases and we found out that our insurance only covered us up to a certain amount and then they hit a cap, and afterwards we had to hold bake sales and our neighbors had to raise money just to make sure that our kids would live.
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