No wonder there are so few children in blue counties. Blue county schools are among the worst in the non-Muslim world.
I wish we could go back to when the Left-wingers were the "Reds".
I'd go for 3 or 4 kids if it wasn't so much work. Hats off to those who can handle this many kids without breaking anything against a wall, you have the gift of patience.
The NYTimes hasn't a clue to what morality, family, GOD, and country are all about!
These people are dumbfounded by what was the norm only 40 years ago.
Our country crashed beginning with the johnson regime, trashed by the carter inept hell, and almost totally demoralized by the clinton.
demoralized? What is the word for the exact opposite of MORALS?
I liked the article, but you can tell that they are dumbfounded by real America.
A comforting report.
Reflecting upon societal trends for the past 40+ years, how gullible many of us have been to the destructive influences of: Hollywood mores, environmentalists' panic stricken warnings of "overpopulation", womens lib "life without men", psychobabble "blame someone else", Marxist educators and the "Hate American Life" press pimps, resulting in a noticeable lack of respect for our founders Judeo-Christian philosophy of decency.
I'll bet Kerry won the states with the highest abortion rates.
Hubby wants four, I tell him I want five but secretly hope for an even half-dozen.
What can I say? I'm addicted to babies LOL
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I raised my children this way, starting in 1983. This is nothing new...it's just what conservatives have been doing forever.
I wonder if the writer can back up the claim that "natalists" (read: crazed baby maachines) tend to marry earlier. I know plenty, including me, from the boomer generation that waited a while, at least until we had our bachelor's degrees.
Too busy to fight a cultural war?? Think so? Come get some, leftist pukes!
Good piece, though it's largely taken from Sailer's article. Andrew Sullivan has a lot of glee attacking the red states, but a lot of what he bashes them with has to do with the high birth rates of the red states. Massachusetts or Pennsylvania may have a low divorce rate because their population is older than that of other states. It's similar for other statistics. Blue states seem closer to zero population growth and hence don't experience some of the strains that that growth can bring. Consequently they aren't as troubled about the influences on children today.
Thanks for my new tag line.
Actually, it's that when people get money, they move to the 'burbs to keep the communists that typically run the big cities from taxing every dime of it away from them and jamming Marxist ideology down their throats and their children's throats.
I wonder how the fertility rates would compare if they took into account the babies that are aborted in blue states. I guess I now have a name for myself, a natalist, seeing as i want a minimum of four children. :)
Bad influences like greedy, big-city liberals.
In my neighborhood we have the most kids in the 30 years I have lived here. Only one of the near families has a trophy kid who can't play because his mother fears life. The others have 2 or 3 kids per family and are growing up in a real neighborhood with lots of kid friends like the one I grew up in.
And I think Brooks is very wrong, wishfully wrong about thinking families with multiple chidren aren't active in the culture war...they are often on the cutting edge because they have a lot at stake...
"Natalists"
Better than "breeders", I suppose.
Speaking as the father of five. ;^)
Pish-tosh! People who have enough kids for a baseball team are breeding their own private cultural army! I could tell you stories ...
And David Brooks is a conservative like I'm a redhead ... in exactly the right light, if you don't look at the roots *too* closely ...