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Ted Malloch: The Tragedy of the European Family
Gateway Pundit ^

Posted on 11/19/2018 7:41:11 PM PST by Phillyred

Emmanuel Macron, the newly elected French president, has no children; German chancellor Angela Merkel has no children. British prime minister, Theresa May has no children; Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni has no children; Holland’s, prime minister, Mark Rutte, Sweden’s Stefan Löfven, Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel, and Scotland’s, first minster Nicola Sturgeon — all have no children.

The list goes on… Latvia’s childless president is Raimonds Vējonis, Lithuania’s childless president is Dalia Grybauskaitė, and Romania’s childless president is Klaus Werner Iohannis. And, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission too, has no children and is family-less.

So to put it rather bluntly: a grossly disproportionate number of the people making serious decisions about Europe’s future have no direct personal sibling, child or grandchildren’s interests at stake in that future. They are not part of a family and have come to see all their attention focused on one dominant and all-powerful social unit to which they pay obeisance and give their complete and devoted attention: The State.

The demographics look problematic. Among native Europeans, the birthrate is currently between 0.2 and 1.1. Europe is not replicating itself and will, if trends are extrapolated—cease to exist.

The numbers are disturbing combining an ageing population, very low birth rates and an inability to pay for their rich benefits: what will come of Europe?

Why precisely, is the family dead or dying in Europe and the west?

In the western world, the traditional family continues to crumble and unravel — anyone who defends past tradition (300,000 years of pre-recorded oral and actual history) is ridiculed and rejected as we give up hope and resign in despair to a future without family or its attendant values. Speaking up for the family has almost no constituency and makes one look nostalgic at best and retrograde...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; birthrate; brexit; emmanuelmacron; eurabia; europeanunion; france; germany; macron; nato; theresamay; unitedkingdom
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To: Garth Tater
"When the birth rate is 2.0 (two children per woman), one married couple supports two grandparents."

I was not contesting that at all -- "my" math confirms it.

The problem comes in at the lower birth rates, such as 0.5: RWM was off by a factor of 2 for a married couple. It (0.5) is still disastrous, of course.

21 posted on 11/20/2018 1:59:18 AM PST by Paul R.
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To: Paul R.; Right_Wing_Madman

Oops, sorry, see post above - did not include you in recipients.


22 posted on 11/20/2018 2:02:29 AM PST by Paul R.
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To: Phillyred
Young people are being indoctrinated that they must focus on their careers first, and not even think of children until they are professionally established; that sex is primarily recreational; and that abortion is a legitimate safety valve if they make a mistake.

So: they focus on their careers first and sleep around. The well educated and those with in-demand technical skills become professionally and financially established. They develop high income lifestyles before pairing off and naturally try to sustain those lifestyles after marrying. This means deferring children until their late 20's or, more commonly, early to mid-30's and limiting children to one or, at most two. An increasing number remain childless.

Those who lack education and skills increasingly don't marry. They also accept the income and lifestyle-first mantra and conclude that they simply can't afford to marry. The women do eventually have children, but they do it on the welfare plan, which drives most of our social problems.

Employers need to seriously rethink work-life balance. Most are all too eager to take bright, well-educated, ambitious young people and work them relentlessly, with the willingness to put in insane hours being the standard pathway to promotion. Prior to the normalization of birth control and abortion, this was much less common, as young people paired off naturally and plans were rearranged as the babies came along. Now the babies don't come along naturally and the young people can be driven on the treadmill for years before they rebel (if they ever do). As an unintended consequence, it's a system that probably gives homosexuals of both persuasions an inherent advantage. I'm not sure how much hyperbole is involved in the suggestion that modern corporate management recognizes the necessity of breeders to maintain a customer base but regards breeders as liabilities as employees.

Perhaps corporations should consciously take work-life balance into consideration for hiring and promotion, especially at senior management levels. How about an informal rule against CEO's who aren't successfully married with at least three or four children? It might not be a bad idea if voters looked for the same in candidates for high political office.

23 posted on 11/20/2018 4:01:30 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Phillyred

AMERICA’S POPULATION

And what should America’s population be?

300 million?
1 billion?
100 billion?
100,000?

Funny how the Replacement Raters, 2.5 or 0.25, will NEVER say what the population SHOULD BE.

Actually population decline is a great thing.
Foreign replacement with immigrant hordes is a bad thing.


24 posted on 11/20/2018 4:21:34 AM PST by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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To: lurk

Well, I’m an average all-American boy and I have seven children, all with blue eyes.


25 posted on 11/20/2018 4:29:24 AM PST by Jim Noble (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain)
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