Ditto in the US.
The documentary, entitled Demographic Winter, can be found here, and watched here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZeyYIsGdAA
Even some secular professors will admit that those who are religious and poor, will pretty much make up the majority of the population.
I think feminism bears much of the blame for this.
Feminism teaches women to men and men to be women. When this happens, procreation becomes more of a challenge.
I did my part. Others have to do the same.
PS: Most of the above have nicer homes, cars and vacations than we, but our weekends and holidays more fun.
In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”
As an Italian-raised Catholic with a large family, it is devastating to watch what it happening around me. My father’s oldest sister has three children, one of whom is gay, another who is married and avowed to not conceive, and another who is still too young to pin but is born of another man than the first two. My father’s youngest sister bore one boy before menopause, and he’s turning out to be a future convict.
My younger brother is yet to be married, and he turned 31 on Sunday. If there’s anyone who might, I believe it to be him. I turn 34 in a few weeks, but my wife is 6 years my senior and due to turn 40 in February. To say that I hear her clock ticking louder than she does is an understatement, but she’s an only child. We live very comfortably and give generously. As much as I want children, I’m starting to accede to the fact that it might not happen. It breaks my heart knowing that the entire next generation of my family might not exist or be left solely to one man who still has to put his life together after a decade-long battle with substance abuse.
On top of all of this, my wife and I talk all the time about how unjust would it be to bring a child into the world as it is? There’s so much death and destruction in our world now, and I feel like I would be helpless to make a child’s life great with so much devastation on the horizon.
I will continue to try until her very last eggs, but even as we do, I can’t help but think I’ll be dying without any children at my bedside; and it makes me feel so empty.
No, he was looking for India. He found a place with people and called them Indians..............
Meanwhile islamic women in Europe are having 6 babies per woman. Problem solved.
I think a major part of the problem is the flight of jobs to other countries and the government’s debasement of the value of our currency. People who can afford to have children tend to have them. But if they not only can’t afford it, but fear for what little income they do have, they decide against having kids. I asked my renters, both of whom work at Wal-Mart if they’re going to have a second child. The husband told me, “There’s no way I can see a future where we could afford to raise a second child.” (They’re both sweet kids and I wanted to steer them into a bigger unit. I’m giving them a good deal on 1000 sq ft, but he’s right, they can’t afford a 3/2 even at the discount I’d give them for being such good renters.)
My 18 cousins(both sides), all baby boomers; had 19 children. A 1.05 replacement rate. A population half life or 30 years. Sad.
Pretty soon it will be Detroit everywhere. Subdivisions back to farms, feral dogs and Muslims in the city.
Somebody’s making babies in Italy, and it ain’t Italians.
This problem in Italy and Europe cannot be understated. I spend a lot of time in Milan. It is a novelty to see parents pushing a stroller for a walk in the park.
In defense of DINKYs. . .
Lots of folks should never have kids. Lousy parents make lousy kids.
Lots of people can’t care for children without destroying them.
Lots of people hate children.
Lots of people abuse children.
If you will love your children, make a bunch of ‘em.
How about MOST of them are Muslim?
I’ve pointed out on FR going on 10 years now a simple reasoning that goes like this:
—> Higher Taxes and Inflation
—> Women moved to workforce
—> Female Independence
—> More Divorce, Abortion and Lower Fertility Rates
—> Demographic Vacuum sucking more Foreign Immigration
—> Cultural Changes that are Un-American
—> Public Education Abandons Moral Instruction
—> Hedonism, Selfishness, More Divorce and Lower Fertility Rates
A vicious cyle is created with the root laying at higher taxes and men unable to support a family.
All of the the above and the following has developed since the 1960s.
1. The income tax bite on the middle class has doubled and the average family budget portion for the family home mortgage has nearly tripled. This is the result of increased government and Fed Reserve induced inflation on home values. This is not free market capitalism at work, this is greed at work and a government that does not know its limits.
2. The failure of family budgeting has caused women to enter the workforce in droves and has spurred egalitarianism with respect to gender. Women working compelled younger women to seek higher education and to climb income ladders within organizations. Higher incomes for women have made them less dependent on men who lost their role as traditional breadwinners. Independent minded women are also less attractive to traditional men. The result is childbearing is put off until the biological clocks force women to settle with an often further result of divorce while maintaining independence and having children.
3. Public education has eviscerated Christianity from the classrooms and auditoriums. This has led to young people with no firm moral grounding. Hence, divorce, hedonism and selfishness have pervaded the culture in the name of “Let’s have fun!” and “What’s in it for me?”. Critical thinking is a thing of the past. Everything fashionable is based on going along to get along with an occasional argument based on moral relativism and most importantly public education fosters a ‘never question authority’ ethos.
All of this started with massive taxation on the middle class. The tax code must be reformed. The FairTax is by far the best solution for federal tax reform.
They’ve forgotten how to do that? In Italy?
War daddy
Father of 5
I would had 10....easy for me to say right girls?
God I do love making em....if u got the right lady like I do
Children? Right now? You have to be out of your mind.
