When all those children grow up, Russia is sure to turn communist again. It happened here...
...many widows left behind and even fewer men to go around, after the last two “Great” wars greatly reduced the “surplus population” of men.
WWI, Russian Revolution, Collapse of the Soviet Union. Lots of generational trauma there. Imagine a Russian family going back all the way to 1914. Now their sons are being sent to the meat grinder in Ukraine.
OH NO!!!
If we send LOTS OF MONEY AND WEAPONS AND MEN THERE...then those fighting for Russia will get home faster and save the day!!
You’re a genius!!
zeepers are the best! They keep me in stiches :)
Putin’s bad news but he’s pragmatic...at least a lot more than W europe is these days with muslims overrunning it and ordinary folks getting arrested for talking correctly about insane stuff like “transgenderism” and other nonsense.
Condoleeza protege? I’m afraid so.
Iraq wasn’t enough.
Let our boys AND our society survive...even with the damage your kind has done economically and to our men in uniform.
There’s still time and hope with Trump
ciao
Only one in three?
That’s far better than most American cities
“Mark Benetton Thursday February 09 2017, 12.01am GMT, The Times”
2017! Give me a break!
In all cases?
Did the mothers never abandon the fathers, or throw them out of the house?
When you have kids not raised by a loving and caring mother and father you will have a problem.
Parents can hate each other and not even live together,
but Kids need stability, or they wander off and lose it.
They find stability somewhere.
Whether they find it at another home, gangs, military, or school, they will find and adopt it.
Those kids will grow up and society will have to deal with them.
First, among men there is a very high alcoholism rate, which leads to deaths and suicides as well as spouse abuse that leads to divorce. Second, there are lots of single mom head of families due to Russian wars all over the world, including Ukraine. Third, there are a lot of military age men who have fled Russia to avoid being drafted. Some may have hopes of bringing wife and family to them if they earn enough and can figure out how to get family out of Russia.
I have a cousin who lives in Germany and was born in the Soviet Union who has cousins she helped flee Russia. She drove to Poland to pick them up after then crossed from Belarus. I know people I used as travel guides in St. Petersburg, who fled to Greece to set up their travel business.
Ukrainian men are no better. It's a cultural issue.
My wife's Ukrainian father had multiple children by multiple wives to the point where he gave two of his daughters the same first name.
Marc Bennetts
Marc Bennetts is a British journalist living in Moscow. He is the author of I’m Going to Ruin Their Lives:Inside Putin’s War on Russia’s Opposition.
In our families 2 children on my side was the max. On my wife’s side, 3 was the max with 2 being an average.
In the current families aka childbearing most couples stop at 2.
Most of the current child bearers who stopped at 2 children with good and expensive college degrees.
This is very true!
Alcoholism is very high with Russian men.