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To: FreedomSurge
Childless adults are rapidly becoming economic free riders on the backs of parents.

I'm sure the childless people who have been paying taxes for years to send other peoples' kids to school might have some disagreement with this statement.

I don't disagree that we need to get out of our post-Feminist reproductive malaise. Too many good, productive people were tricked into pursuing their careers in the 70s and 80s rather than starting families. Many others didn't have kids out of fear for the future. The result is a declining population growth among our societies' most productive demographic groups.

But some of the statements here are kind of extreme, and I don't see any point in that.

21 posted on 03/06/2006 7:25:52 AM PST by Kenton
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To: Kenton

Exactly. Plus some people are childless NOT by choice...or circumstances were such that the window of opportunity to reproduce closed before getting the proverbial ducks in a row (to mix some metaphors!lol!)


42 posted on 03/06/2006 7:32:51 AM PST by TEXOKIE (Wear Red on Fridays to support the troops!!)
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To: Kenton

"Too many good, productive people were tricked into pursuing their careers in the 70s and 80s rather than starting families."

Ohhhh nooooo! We were economically PRODUCTIVE! What were we THINKING? ;-D


43 posted on 03/06/2006 7:33:18 AM PST by linda_22003
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