You educate a boy, and he'll have fewer children, but it's a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she's more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.
An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
I think education is something that is very important no matter what you are doing. It makes you feel secure, independent, and helps you build confidence in yourself. It grooms your whole personality. So if it starts from the basic level; if the basic education that a girl and a boy receive is the same, I think a lot will change.
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.
If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.
Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.