[Sacajaweau]

Can we perhaps just imagine more people are using birth control??

[Sacajaweau]

Garbage thread...what the hell are you trying to prove?

[Tom Tetroxide]

The declining fertility rate in China is so bad I’m expecting any day now that the Chi-Coms will be forcing men and women to get married and have children.

[fwdude]

None of this matters without a moral foundation. And we are very far from that.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Get rid of all unconstitutional feral government agencies and their regulations and let the economy grow at its full potential.

People will make babies when they feel prosperous enough to take care of them adequately.

Everything government touches turns to excrement. They should NEVER be involved in anything connected to having and raising children. Ever.

[EnderWiggin1970]

None of these would move the needle. The fundamental problem is that people don't _want_ children, because they are indoctrinated into an infantile worldview of seeking instant pleasure and gratification rather than deeper, long-term joy at seeing the fruit of their labors flourish in the form of well-raised children. Who wants to spend thousands on diapers and food for the kiddos when it could be spent on jet skis and vacations to Acapulco?

The solution involves restoring and teaching a Judeo-Christian worldview and fencing out the toxic humanist worldview that is now setting the stage (if Christ does not return) for a civilization-ending population collapse akin to the dark ages that ended the Roman Empire. Back then the western Empire saw cities become ghost towns with only 5-10% of their peak population, even before the barbarian invaders hit. The invaders were pushing in on an undefended door to an empty house.

[Truthsearcher]

I’ve been advocating family voting for some time.

I think it’s the best solution, as it give weight to the voices of all citizens equally.

[PGR88]

Everyone should read Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 address to Harvard Grads

He said (in sum): yes, marxism is terrible, and it is discredited everywhere, but don’t congratulate yourselves, Westerners. You are just as post-modern, materialist, consumerist, and even more spiritually flaccid than your Soviet counterparts.

[Chainmail]

I remember our teacher - a nun in St. Genevieve's High School in Van Nuys California - telling us in 1962 that birth control would lead to infidelity and higher rates of sexually transmitted disease and divorce, and then to legal and common abortion.

We grimaced, like how the heck would she know?

Then she said that abortion would lead to childlessness, the breakdown of marriages and families, homosexuality, euthanasia and societal breakdown.

Now, of course, we can see that she was prescient way beyond her years.

The only way back is a return to faith and the values Our Lord has given us.

[Theophilus]

I think that if the nations would merely enforce God’s laws, these problems would resolve quickly.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Fertility rates are not dropping. Abortion and contraception are ramping. God does His part. Man does his. It’s the murderous woman doing her part that is dropping the number of babies born.