We don’t have enough money for kids because the government takes it from us and gives it to the newly-arrived ones with the 4 always-pregnant wives, our replacements.
we choose to spend our money in other ways.
My great-grandparents had families of 10 and 11 kids. They were factory workers in the 1870's and 1880's. Believe me, they were paupers compared to us today, and yet they made sure their kids were well-rooted in Faith and Family, were hard workers and trained for jobs in the skilled trades.
My grandparents had families of 5 and 6 kids. They were skilled tradesmen, toolmakers, and had industrial jobs. All their kids worked even in high school, helped support their brothers and sisters, and stayed in school as long as they could despite the Great Depression.
My parents had 2 kids. My husband's parents had 4. Good solid people, aith-family-education-employment, same values.
My husband and I got married late, and had 2 (one home-grown and one adopted) though we'd wanted more. My brother, Univesity educated, highly-paid job n management-level engineering, and his college-educated, working wife, had no kids.
A lot of rich people have One-Child-Special, or none.
A trend. Make of it what you will.
Follow God’s rules and he will provide.
Think of the widow where Elijah stayed. Her oil and flour did not run out because she did God’s will (spoken through Elijah.)
We don’t have enough money for kids because the government takes it from us and gives it to the newly-arrived ones with the 4 always-pregnant wives, our replacements.
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That’s the way the government wants it because those people will vote for big government and they don’t care about corruption.
There is an ever-greater bias against large families in most advanced civilized cultures, because of peer pressure (”You don’t want to bring even MORE children into this already crowded world, do you?”) and a sense of “having arrived”, the competition for more of the worldly share of goods and services is under far less stressful demand. That and the fact that procreation is almost completely separated from recreational sex, by various means of birth control and societal norms, has removed many of the former incentives for large families.
“The rich get richer, and the poor get children” is one of those catch phrases which takes on a much different meaning over the years. By restricting the size of the family, each member gets to enjoy much more of the fruits of the breadwinner than may otherwise be likely, while very poor families usually have the excess number of children as the obvious source of their continued penury.
But bringing in sizable numbers of lower-educated and highly prolific foreigners, most if not all of which do NOT share your ideals, dreams and aspiration, only results in the displacement of one ethnic group by another, not a continuation of the original ethnicity. History is rife with all kinds of examples of this, the original Classical Greeks (Aegeans) displaced by the Hellenistic “Greeks”, mostly Egyptians, and those in turn displaced mostly by persons who are the same root stock as Albanians.
Excellent point.