Pastor, Katherine B.

BSA – 2A Sociology September 16, 2019

“Will the child be an economic asset or a

burden to the family in a globalized
world?”
As what I have learned from my parents and in the religious aspect, a child is an economic asset to
the family because it is considered as a sacred blessing from God and somehow the hope for the future. But as
of this moment, the question that arises made me realized something and that of the word “asset” there because
when we define asset it means a valuable or a useful thing which means we treat our child as someone whom
we can benefited with. With that, it seems like we’re owning the life of our child, well in fact that it is his life
and not ours. We have occupied ourselves entirely from the idea of valuing children for the later return of our
investment in them. That is why, we routinely repudiate the idea that we should be at all independent on our
children.
And what I am trying to say is that a child is somehow an economic burden in relation to a person’s
responsibilities because as we bear a child we gain another responsibility wherein we are liable for all their
needs and must fulfill them but we are not doing all of this to get something in return. Because in the very
first place we are the one engaging ourselves to this kind of responsibility and we are just paying the price by
making that child to grow well. We must invest our love and care without expecting benefits from them. Also,
they are economically burden in a way of increasing our population especially nowadays that we are of becoming
a globalized world and prone to economic crisis and one of the developing countries yet. However, children are
still precious in our eyes and an advantage in our life because we bear a child for our emotional satisfaction
and emotional needs.
Children may not make good economic sense anymore, but they can be our life-long companion and
friends for they are much more frankly and reliable than a wife and a husband. At the root of however we deal
with our collective crisis, whatever methods of restraint we eventually enact – and I think we will enact them
so let them be good ones, that lead to a just and honorable society. Not only children contributes to economic
burden but every one of us who mistakenly decides our paths but nevertheless, we must be reminded that –
every child that we have is not an asset rather than a special present from God because every birth is a gift,
and we must only treasure them more.