I find that interesting considering the underclass is breeding like rabbits.
Pass it along.
in 1900, european people were 1 in 3 people in the world.
then the birth control pill was invented, and so was giving cash to other countries, while our women complain that they don’t have enough money to have another baby
now it is 1 in 7. in 90 years time it is predicted to be 1 in 15
Some of us remember when births weren’t controlled and pregnancies weren’t planned.
Contraception has been around MUCH longer than you have been alive, unless you’re a Highlander...in which case your population decrease is occuring at a much faster rate than the West’s.
For most of human history the human population of the Earth was less than a billion.
A decline from six billion, by the means of citizens exercising their ability to reproduce or not upon their own recognizance, is nothing to cry about.
Article summary - Have more babies so I can get Social Security and Medicare.
Rather than systematic euthanasia enforced on the old by the young, I see enslavement of the young and working in order to hold on to the dwindling dream of the Ponzi scheme.
Hi. Good article.
Contraceptives big problems? Not hardly, many use the small sized ones but won’t admit it.
FReerider ping?
I assume the rise in US fertility over the last 20 years or so is due to the fertility of immigrants..
From the Article:
“Some of us remember when births weren’t controlled and pregnancies weren’t planned.
...snip...
The decline of marriage and the rise of cohabitation. Not surprisingly, in relationships without commitment, people have fewer children. By the way, the left’s contribution to the coming population crisis is to push the one type of ‘marriage’ (and I use the term advisedly) that can’t conceivably produce children.
“But perhaps,” he concluded, “the most important factor is a culture (including Hollywood, the news media and academia) that tells people that children are a burden, rather than a joy; that pushes an ego-driven, live-for-the-moment ethic; a culture that tells us that contentment comes from careers, love, friendship, pets, possessions, travel, personal growth - anything and everything except family and children. It’s a culture that can look at Sarah Palin and her beautiful family and ask why she had to have 5 children and why she didn’t abort her child with Downs syndrome.”
Where I think the article needs clarification: it’s misleading to think that people did not plan children in the past; neglects discussion of purposeful planning to cooperate with God in the pro-creative act.
Where I agree: His analysis of the anti-family culture of death is completely accurate.
So, as people live longer and longer, the solution is to have more and more children, who will grow up and live and longer and longer, but that’s OK because they have more and more children, etc.
Somehow that doesn’t sound like a viable solution.
I can’t afford children. The state of California has me busy paying taxes to support the children of illegal aliens. I’d be mean spirited if I had kids of my own and forced the poor Mexican kids to have to go hungry. [/s]
However having the human race die off solves a host of “problems”. No humans no global warming, no Social Security problem and no one to tear down Lord Obama’s effigies.
FREERIDER PING!!!!!
More gloom-and-doom nonsense, just like the New Ice Age and Global Warming.
“What is now known as the “right to die movement” is steadily morphing into what will soon become the “oblicagtion (sic) to die movement.””
Very true. There’s a lot of resentment regarding old people and the very sick who are “using up all our resources”. People have hardened over the years.
Warning: NEVER fall for inpatient pallitive care for yourself or a family member. My sister (52 y/o) lasted one day under that label. I agreed to it because they told me she’d be pain free. Well she sure was after a few heavy doses of IV morphine. I arrived the next morning and she was unresponsive and died that afternoon. Insofar as I was concerned it was Euthanasia. I did some investigating and it’s been going on for years. The patients have Cancer or other catastrophic illness so it’s not detected and if it is - well they were endstage Cancer patients.
Maybe some movie producer ought to produce a film about teenage pregnancy and childbirth that downplays the downsides of teen motherhead.
Maybe Jamie Lynn-spears ought to be a role model for girls entering puberty.