Posted on 10/04/2007 4:50:57 PM PDT by ellenbrewster
It’s been a few weeks since September 12th, so if your early-pregnancy test colors positive, go claim your car, fridge or computer.
Russia ’s imploding population has birthed schemes to nudge couples to conceive. September 12th was proclaimed the Day of Conception in the Ulyanovsk region of Russia . Pairs who “give birth to a patriot” nine months later on June 12th, Russia Day, win cash, cars, and other goodies.
Prizes to procreate - how grim. One would think making babies would be reward enough. But Russia’s population dearth reflects negative 21st Century attitudes toward children. Between poverty, immorality, avarice and environment screeds, planet earth is not that kid-friendly.
Russia ’s population drops approximately 750,000 a year. Murray Feshbach, a senior scholar at the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson Center, points to drugs, alcoholism, cigarettes and sexually transmitted diseases as leading reasons for the decline. These, along with feeble nationalized healthcare and economic systems contribute to the implosion. Romance tanks when you are stressed over food, health and housing.
Other factors include steep suicide rates, abortion, homosexuality, violence and women’s preference for career over kids. No wonder the nation’s corked up.
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