Posted on 12/17/2012 4:28:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Contraception is killing this country.
Would you coerce women to have children? What about people who know they have genetic issues? Maturity issues? Sanity issues? Economic issues?
All the homosexuals will re-populate for us.
—a whole flock of rugrats are much less attractive when you don’t need them for subsistence agricultural help or to replace those lost in the hunter-gatherer culture-—
“But as Last points out, the fertility rate for white, college-educated American women – a proxy for the US middle class – is 1.6. “In other words, America has created its very own ‘One-Child’ policy. It’s soft and unintentional, the result of accidents of history and thousands of little choices. But it has been just as effective.””
Very well stated, and applies to EVERY country that does it. The bottom line is that if women are given the choice of kids or lots of money, but not both, many will go the money route - typically by either not having kids, not having as many kids, and (almost always) delaying whatever kids they have.
It’s all good and well to say that’s fine and if that’s what a free country allows - but countries do not exist simply as a place for the present generation to get old and die off, they also are intended to last a bit longer than that. And with what we have, along with Western and Central Europe and much of Asia, there won’t be much left in a couple of generations.
Oh yea, we can laugh as the idiot Muslim countries for being backwards, but they have figured this out and use their own means (however brutal) to assure continued population growth.
There are options available to Western countries to address the problem...but they’re likely gone too far politically to have the stomach for it.
Yep, declining birth rate is an inevitable result of children becoming an economic burden rather than benefit.
We’re not going to be going back to an unmechanized agriculture society anytime soon.
Any attempt to drastically shift tax burdens from families to the childless more than they already are is going to be political suicide for the party that attempts it, as it will enrage the childless.
And some sort of religious theocracy that bans the pill would also be futile. Nothing would be easier to sneak across the border.
People with children are statistically more likely to shop at Walmart and The Salvation Army than at specialty boutiques.
Maybe we could just import some African Muslims?
We can no longer deal with anything but ME. I want what I want, when I want it. It takes compassion and patience to raise kids and we don’t have it. If you are tied of a pet, just take it to a pet daycare for weeks on end or to the local rescue. Narcissism at its finest.
That “pack of rugrats” is the only way to perpetuate your culture. Imports from Mexico or Somalia may fill schools and take jobs, but bring enough of them and you won’t have America anymore — you’ll have Mexico and Somalia on formerly-American soil.
We welcomed our 12th grandchild to the world last Tuesday —a 9 lb, 1 oz baby boy, my daughter in law’s 5th child.
Bucking the trend.
Congratulations! That’s a very substantial baby!
Yes, and my DIL is a wisp of a woman. The baby is adorable! I had a 9 lb er and they look like they are a month old when they are newborns.
You are doing more than you part too at replacing the population. Congrats to you too.
For the young very wealthy, four or more children are the ultimate status symbol. For the very poor, such fecundity is the source of great government benefits.
For the in-between, kids are by usually—though not universally—wanted, and they are a major cost and a big drag on lifestyle until the grandparenting years.
As has been noted by others, when the completion of grad school is considered prudent before settling down, there are far fewer peak years of fertility before pregnancy and birth become significant medical challenges.
Kids that we do have are living with single mothers, taking anti-depressants and shooting up our schools.
When our kids have it pounded into their heads by the education system that people and Americans in particular are the problem, is it any wonder that they aren’t enthusiastic about starting families?
My wife and I have 4 children and stopped at the age of 38 with our last child. However, being 43 we have witnessed a lot of our friends still having children. I would say the average number of children amonst my friends has to be at least 3 because quite a few of our friends have 5 and a good many have 4. Very few of my friends have 2 children and I don’t know any that have zero. Could this be a media distortion of what is going on??? I mean they always have an agenda.
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