Posted on 04/13/2022 7:37:16 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Most of the baby strollers my family observed on vacation in Savannah, Georgia were not transporting babies. Instead, couples perambulated about the city with . . . dogs. By the end of our vacation, we had counted more than 200 different dogs in strollers across the city. Seeing an actual baby in a stroller proved to be the exception, not the rule. The U.S. birthrate has fallen by about 20 percent since 2007, and shows no signs of recovering.
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“A minimalist government policy would promote these births through the tax code and support for faith based support.”
Won’t work, because those are not the reasons why the birth rate dropped in the first place. You need to address the root causes of the trend if you ever want to hope to reverse the trend.
I really didn't get a Christian "vibe" from algore's statement. If he had alluded to the pointless of having children because of, e.g., the imminent return of Christ, I would have respected that and/or withheld commentary.
But instead, he seems simply to be a nihilist.
Regards,
Sorry: I don't see any widescale problems - technological or otherwise - that would preclude having happy, healthy babies at the current time. (My wife and I have two.)
I spoke about personal problems (e.g., financial difficulties, marital discord, etc.) that should definitely be taken into account before procreating.
But large-scale problems?! They may have nuisance value, but other than that... My wife and I see no obstacles to having still more children - no obstacles that we can't overcome (or, if they can't be overcome: that would make it immoral to reproduce and subject further children to them).
Caveat: I am referring to First World living conditions.
Regards,
Never heard of The Giver. I will have to look that one up.
This problem will sort itself out rather quickly. Not sure how yet.
Correct. Now Uncle Sam is the de facto father for the typical American woman. John Doe is no longer needed.
“But large-scale problems?! They may have nuisance value, but other than that... My wife and I see no obstacles to having still more children - no obstacles that we can’t overcome (or, if they can’t be overcome: that would make it immoral to reproduce and subject further children to them).”
No, probably not right now at this time, but your children won’t be living their lives in this world very much. They’ll be living them in the world of 20, 30, 40 years from now. Just look at the technologically-powered totalitarianism that is developing in China, and the fact that all Western governments (save Sweden) looked to China’s example when responding to the pandemic crisis, and well, I just can’t imagine that the world of a few decades from now won’t see Western countries creating some techno-repressive governments of their own after another crisis or two comes down the pipe.
But hopefully you are right and I am wrong, and this is just my cynicism coloring my perspective.
Doggie Style, she’s doing it wrong.
Yeah, and back between the 60s and 80s the excuse of this crowd was nuclear war.
The U.S. birthrate has fallen by about 20 percent since 2007, and shows no signs of recovering. Among childless adults, 44 percent of those under 50 say it is not too or not at all likely they will ever have children, up from 37 percent who said the same in 2018.
Without children, 34-year-old Tasmin Turner said, “I’ve been able to move across the country and back again based only on my wants and needs.”
As Business Insider points out, “For some women, a career is their baby.”
The Pill directly and indirectly fostered the rise in feminism, insecure and oversensitive spoiled selfish rebellious offspring, and liberalism.
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