What a horrible, ignorant, comment.

Look at the recent US drought - were people wrong to have had children ten years ago? How were they to know that some areas of the US were going to be in severe multi-year drought?

Why is it different if you change "the US" to some other part of the world?

Have a read of "Too Poor To Farm" which explains some of the problems very poor people face, and explains some of the reasons why very poor people have children.

http://www.irinnews.org/report/94947/lesotho-weather-extreme...

The best way to do that is to educate young girls so they grow up into women who don't want to just pump out kids. It happened in the West, it can work elsewhere.

Unfortunately, in a lot of places there is a regression in this area.