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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259348 [Title] => Most explosive issue / Other explosive issues [Summary] => The most explosive social issue in the Philippines today alongside poverty is a population that has gone berserk. Now 84 million, its spurting close to 100 million, a hulking monster with a hundred claws we may not be able to control at all. At the lowest levels of the population, particularly in the countryside, parents still consider it a boon and a blessing to beget 8 to 10 children. At mid-levels, the middle class, the family narrows down to 3-5 children. The rich and very rich pull it down a little more, 3 or 2.
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By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | July 30, 2004 - 12:00am
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