I happened to see something like this earlier today, one of the dogs was a little scotty.
This is very sad to me.
I like animals, and think it’s fine people enjoy their pets.
But, if they are having pets as a replacement for people in their lives, something doesn’t seem right about that.
And, if we’re talking about professional career women, who perhaps having absorbed messages from women’s liberation that you don’t need a man, you don’t need family, children, etc. it’s a sad state of affairs, in my opinion.
We all need people in our lives. Not necessarily primarily in an area of romantic attachments either. And if people enjoy their pets, that’s all good too. But, if pets become a substitute or replacement for people in our lives, that’s a very bad trend.
Conversely, I foresee the rise of more Christian organizations like Quiverfull, where the emphasis of their faith is in having and raising large families.
Thus the new reality will be of secularists and atheists dying out, or producing children that are “nonviable”, that cannot follow in their parents’ footsteps of having and raising children. They will birth control, abort, and pervert themselves into extinction.
So the key question is when and how other Christian faiths realize that our national future lies with our children, not our government.
As the National voting population continues to choose to increase the tax burden on our Nation’s future children with greater and greater permanent Welfare Debt, the more practical of the two subspecies of humans, (Women), have increasingly chosen to have fewer children.
Besides, “CHILD” spelled backwards is just “DLIHC.”
Our small child is gently snoring under the covers as I type. :-)
Is this from Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirzi?
WOOF
We adopted a little poodle mix 2 years ago.
I was very anti-dog, but my husbands and daughters had wanted one for years. I knew I would end up taking care of a dog, so I never wanted one.
However, when my husband was diagnosed with cancer snd my daughter was diagnosed with a movement disorder, I thought a dog might be good for us.
Well, I am now a total dog person. We all love our little puppy. She’s had lots of health problems, but she has the sweetest prrsonality. She’s been the right medicine for my family!
Without immigration[legal/illegal] we wouldn't be growing as a society.
Correlation != Causation
While I don’t disagree that our very survival as a culture is in jeopardy, small dogs are not the bringers of the apocalypse, even if I do find them unnecessary.
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I have a few comments on this, without thorough reading or researching elsewhere.
-are just young women buying little dogs? What about the Boomers on the bubble of being the prime elders now? Older people like smaller dogs; sone change because a large dog is physically hard for them to handle.
-comparing it to babies born to 15-29? Seriously? Sorry, but most of that age bracket should NOT be bearing babies. I’m glad if there are fewer irresponsible children having babies out of wedlock.
-lonely playgrounds may be due much to parents’ ridiculous notions that children should be herded into forced organized activities instead of just plain playing. My neighborhood has more kids playing for fun during the weeknights than weekends (much as I HATE the neighbor who set up a hoop on our straight street to invite every kid to play in the street). Lots of times the weekend days here are like school times. No kids out. They make them go to these stupid activities.
A couple of things jump out about our current demographic decline.
Marrying young and having children young is best for the genetic health of the children and for the health of the mother. Our society is at war with this for reasons other than the ideal for the children. Yes, economically speaking, waiting would provide more monetary stability. But, the waiting is really more for girls to go to college and then following through with the career to justify the expenditure.
In the meantime, young amorous males at the peak of their reproductive ability are out there horndogging around, picking up bad habits and worse. Presumptions of sexual equality demand that girls do the same. Not a good recipe for even a successful marriage at any point in life, let alone bringing children into it.
Males are severely disadvantaged both legally and economically by the courts in any divorce situation, which occurs what, about half the time? Bad odds, bad bet in general for men, and so marriage is declining.
Fatherhood regardless of marital status is severely disadvantaged legally and economically by the courts as well, so, yep, decline there too, among educated taxpaying males at least. Uneducated males on public assistance are another matter. They’re not held to the same standard and are not thrown into indentured servitude or what is tantamount to debtor’s prison for failing to provide draconian child support.
There are a lot of factors playing into this, self-centered lifestyle choices of women are only a part of it.