Women who have been unemployed have fewer kids: U.S. study

al-Reuters ^ | 29SEP2014 | al-Reuters Staff Writer

[Jack Hydrazine]

(Reuters) - Women who were unemployed in their youth tend to have fewer children into middle-age than women who worked, according to a U.S. study released on Monday.

[Robert A Cook PE]

So, what do they call the women who breed on the welfare “roles” who NEVER had a job except to create bigger welfare checks?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oh. Wait - The ones who worked and earned incomes early on WERE saving money to afford legitimate kids and a family later on!

[TexasFreeper2009]

exactly! I was about to say this goes against a lifetime of noticing just the opposite!

Those on welfare often have huge families

[maddog55]

“Ugly” comes to mind.

[lee martell]

Next survey, gather your data from the sane side of Alice’s Looking Glass. This is an inversion of what everyone know to be the truth; women not fully employed are more likely to have numerous children than women who are fully employed.
I guess this is one of those ‘support group’ enabling stats to soak up the guilt from not bothering to work when you could.

[Cold Heat]

Feral cats with a limited food supply tend to have fewer kittens..

[b4its2late]

Look at the welfare lot. The more kids, the more cash!

[Cold Heat]

I don’t thing welfare has anything to do with the assumptions being made here.

I think it has to do with a conscious or unconscious decision to not bring children into the world, as a result of previous exposures to a bad situation.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Probably just as well that lazy women not have kids

[familyop]

And most of those employed don’t know the fathers.

[kearnyirish2]

Working people without kids are simply paying to feed/clothe/house/school other peoples’ kids; at what point do they realize the absurdity of that and “be fruitful and multiply”?

I guess it is more comfortable to kick in to the welfare pot and then complain about the number of (increasingly foreign) gibsmedats that swarm all over places that had been filled with productive people before...

[Cold Heat]

I agree, but I did not want to get into that aspect ....lol

Being in my 60s now, and looking closely at societal-political changes, there have been two ways to skin the cat of destitute and needy people.

One is through volunteerism, donations to NGO’s like churches, and your own personal efforts if you can...which I have done. Or you have the liberal new age idea of government doing it all, providing jobs, providing food, providing security and a roof.

The best days of this country had a mix of the two, because you can’t let them mill about, or let the young go to criminal activity, or let disease and starvation make it intolerable for everyone.

You also cannot rely on mostly government, because people are much like our animal co-habitants, whereby they multiply in the presence of to much free stuff and easy living and forget how to obtain it in the normal way.(feeding feral cats, I used as a example)

So I think the mix of aid should lean more to the private sector..thus it is not constant or guaranteed. And therefore will not damage or replace a persons core need to provide for themselves..

You got me going.....so I opined on it..

[octex]

Feral cats with a limited food supply tend to have fewer kittens.
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Agree; and the same applies to most animals.

Aside... The CS Lewis thing on your home page just reminded me of why I hate people who can’t just state things in plain language instead of throwing in all the obscure/obtuse words.

I hated, really hated, English Literature in school!!!! The damn teachers always wanted us students to “interpret” what the authors had written. It was all jibberish to us!!

[kearnyirish2]

Good points. I believe the government wanted total control of “aid” (and all of the economy), and has to eliminate any competition. Here in NJ, the state is destroying the Catholic healthcare system by requiring treatment of anyone showing up in emergency rooms and then reducing the reimbursements for “charity care”; my diocese has sold its hospitals, and some closed outright. They’ve destroyed the Catholic education system by simply taxing residents so much for the public school systems that they can’t afford private schools; in the end, Catholic schools close and are then leased or bought by public school systems. The same children may go to school there, but they are now public schools...