And this family, too!
Posted on 07/01/2014 3:26:27 PM PDT by NYer
I wasn’t around for the Reagan years...lucky you!!!
And this family, too!
Given abortions, the statistic should be referring to birth rate, not fertility rate imo.
Not too different than the “Glad I’m near the end of my life” post I see on this site.
Don’t worry. It’s guaranteed a large percent of those illegal teens are pg or will be very soon.
My parents are in their late 80’s. They are horrified by what this country has become. They say they are glad they are near the end so they won’t have to witness this country destroyed.
Look, things are happening they could never have believed would happen. I can understand that because I never imagined how awful we could fall.
While this is not addressed to you personally I did want to say that as a single, white, Catholic Christian male in his early 30's why should I?
To perpetuate a society that those who have come before me has allowed to fail? You (collectively) failed to recognize the existential threat and failed to prevent our society from devolving into a cesspool of contraception, abortion, and homosexuality. We've been overrun. And now those who are getting ready to shuffle off want to put the onus on me to do something about it. I don't think so.
How can I and my co-generationalists expect to re-populate the nation with females raised by baby boomers to self-deify; whose ultimate expression is found in the phrase, "It's my body"?
Let it fail. We'll start again.
WOW!!! They sure are blessed!!!
Don’t forget Duck Dynasty family the Robertsons
Roughly one in five white women never have kids. Just by pushing half of them to have had a kid or two, we’d be at TFR.
Here’s the deal, have 5 kids and we give you 2 votes.
lol
They can’t find jobs to pay loan payments - or engagement rings - or buy their own homes & start families.
Seems like everyones been in a holding pattern since 2008
There's a fair amount of truth in that. There is a serious lack of upward mobility that will allow for the creation of families to happen. Older generations are "squatting" because they've been dipping into their 401(k) to finance their lifestyle and/or lost it in the housing crisis of 2007-2008. So we are in a holding pattern, waiting for those people to move on. At least that's been my experience in the Fortune 100 company I work for.
Plus, we have the example of our parents who decided to forego large families in exchange for the RV and the boat at the lake. So why wouldn't I follow their example and instead of having a family opted to get my pilot's license instead. Life as playground.
There’s a balance for each life.
If we want to know “Where have all the people gone? Long time passing”
maybe it’s
“The dumpster in the alley, every one.”
The shoe of abortion might take a while to drop in a way that even the insensitive can see, but drop it does.
Makes you wonder what Obambi’s population control experts are doing to the water. Heh
Been to Baltimore (Wash DC/St. Louis/Chicago/Detroit/etcetcetcetc) lately? I think not.
That is so very true and I think we're seeing the beginning of that now. I for one am not happy about 3rd world immigration barely pushing us over the finish line to replacement levels. Destroys our national character.
And I will not “directly” blame contraceptive measures that have no abortive intent, but they did form the occasion by which people were encouraged to think less about children when they thought about sex and marriage. And so sex got pulled out of context. Again I do not blame a technology. I point out the lack of responsibility in what people consented to do with it. The amoral, untrammeled capitalism did what it does best, even if it is to the bad. It sold a product. Now if someone from Mars came, and saw what we sell in the open, they might be pardoned for thinking that we are a society of alley cats.
Well, because the whoopee does have side effects. If people came up with an absolutely foolproof, no-thought-required cure for getting pregnant without those bothersome moral overtones, there’d be less — why in fact there ARE less, as abortion serves that role for many.
I weep. God weeps too. Convenience has yanked love out of context.
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