1.
Write the writer’s attitude to plural children. (2056)
2.
Why is Barbara Holland in favour of a single child? (2058)
3.
What does Barbara Holland say about having many children? (2060)
4.
How does Barbara Holland express her feeling about having many children? (2062)
5.
What are the disadvantage having plural children? (2061)
6.
How does the author try to convince that it is better have one child rather
than having many children? (2066)
‘Speaking
of Children’ is an essay written by Barbara Holland which shows the numerous
problems of those parents who have got more than one child. One child is
inevitable for all parents but more than one is a headache in various way and
the essayist tires to address such kind of problems in this essay. The precious
moment, happiness and the family bliss are somewhere lost when the parents have
more than one child.
Having
plural children are not only problematic to the parents only but for
the children themselves because they are deprived from the fundamental and
natural right and some are even deprived from the balance diet. For the sole
desires, interest and happiness as well as privacy and peacefulness, many
parents are facing critical problems. The parents should have to
fulfill the each and every demands of the children and these all are almost
impossible if they have the plural children. Apart from that, having more than
one child creates social, economic problems. The parents can manage good
environment in the house if they have one child. You can brainwash the mind of
the children. It may not create problem for you. But plural children nourish a
counter-culture trend in the family.
According
to the essayist’s opinion, it’s very essential to a healthy marriage that the
wife should manage some quiet private time to chat with the husband, preferably
when he gets home from work. They need peace and privacy just for half an hour.
But in such a private and peaceful moment also your children are disturbing
you. Sometimes they quarrel, sometimes they break off something and sometimes
they interrupt the peaceful conversation between the couple.
OUTLINE OF ESSAY
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Problems of having more than a child
in a family. One child is outnumbered and easy to manage.
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Plural children weaken the pleasure
and peace in the family. The family life can be disturbed by the plural
children and the situation can be very worst.
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Mutual understanding, co-operation,
love and harmony are almost impossible.
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The parents become tired and they
can unable to control the family and destructive situation comes in final. The
children make the house untidy and dirty, break things and produce unwanted
noise.
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The consequences of having plural
children cause the adverse impact in the family. The family status decrease day
by day regarding social, economic and cultural factors.
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One child is appendage (addition,
attachment) in a family. But more than one is the way of life or the adverse
way of life.
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The peace and privacy in family is
possible when the parents have one child, likewise the joy and jovial family
life is there. The parents do not get an hour to talk separately.
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One child leads the parents to live
in easy way but more than one makes them difficult to live with all their
problems and difficulties.
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One child is easy for upbringing,
educating and feeding. The child grows up in the perfect environment and gets
all the facilities or can live by his all child-right.
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The writer also addresses the
child-spacing; at least two children are manageable in the family. But her
serious concern is for a single child. The writer faces the serious problems in
the family because of the plural children.
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The family expenditure rises highly
if the parents have more than one child and the parents should face the
economic crisis.
