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More Couples Having More Kids
Fox28 ^ | 10/17/06 | AP

Posted on 10/17/2006 7:48:06 AM PDT by qam1

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1 posted on 10/17/2006 7:48:06 AM PDT by qam1
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2 posted on 10/17/2006 7:51:51 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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Also interesting is that generally speaking, about 80% of children follow their parents in their religious and political beliefs. I've been told that the majority of families that are 3+ are more likely to be Christian and conservative.

If true, and if the trend holds, this has the hope of shifting the political landscape by a significant margin over the next 20 to 25 years.
3 posted on 10/17/2006 7:53:31 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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4 posted on 10/17/2006 7:54:22 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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I noticed one of the mothers is a homeschooling mother.

I've been pointing this out on the board for a while.

Homeschoolers value children and the family. We are having large families, and we are raising them conservative. The dems have made themselves so hostile to homeschooling they have more than lost that graphic.


5 posted on 10/17/2006 7:56:37 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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It's barely a blip on the nation's demographic radar -- 11 percent of U.S. births in 2004 were to women who already had three children, up from 10 percent in 1995.

The obvious reason for the increase is that the hordes from south of the border as dropping anchor babies as fast as they can.


6 posted on 10/17/2006 7:56:40 AM PDT by digerati
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My cousin (about 5 years older) has 6 children. (All very nice mannerly kids too. Amazing especially considering their grandma is a real psycho !$#@@#$ who was divorced, and my cousin's twin brother died in a house fire as a 4yo on my own grandma's birthday. Maybe B's trying to make up for the loss of his exact likeness in such a tragic way.)


7 posted on 10/17/2006 7:57:31 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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We just had our third. We like to think of her as our middle child :)


8 posted on 10/17/2006 7:58:10 AM PDT by Eepsy
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Of course, I'd also add my cousin B is the exception and not the rule, either for my family or the whole pop. The rest of the cousins are hardly even married!


9 posted on 10/17/2006 7:58:21 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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I think she's a great and unexpected role model on television.

All the liberal 30-something childless singletons I work with discuss Laura Bennett frequently.

She has five kids with a sixth on the way, she's a stay at home mom who works from home in the fashion industry, she lives in Manhattan and when she's not pregnant she is quite slim and trim.

She's always dressed to the nines and looks younger than 42.

She destroys the culture of death stereotype that a mom of six is a benighted, cultureless drone grown obese and old before her time with no chance of having her own life and interests.

She's a breath of fresh air and I hope she starts a trend.

10 posted on 10/17/2006 7:58:52 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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You betcha! That, and Muslims......This story is a fluke. While there are probably more conservative families having children than liberals, they are but a blip on the radar compared to illegals and Muslims....


11 posted on 10/17/2006 7:58:58 AM PDT by Gaffer
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The obvious reason for the increase is that the hordes from south of the border as dropping anchor babies as fast as they can.

Nice racist talking points, but not pertinent ones.

12 posted on 10/17/2006 8:00:13 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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if not for legalized abortion and contraception, this would be the norm.


13 posted on 10/17/2006 8:01:45 AM PDT by balch3
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Those who breed lead.


14 posted on 10/17/2006 8:03:21 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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Indeed.


15 posted on 10/17/2006 8:05:10 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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I love Project Runway and never miss an episode.
Laura is a no-nonsense woman who deals with challenges in a practical way. Maybe it's because she is a woman in a man's world, she calls them as she sees them. Amazingly enough ALL of her children are boys, including the one on the way!
I've loved her design work, which is elegant and highly marketable, and her immpeccable craftsmanship. I'm pulling for her to win!
16 posted on 10/17/2006 8:05:37 AM PDT by Sisku Hanne (*Support DIANA IREY for US Congress!* Send "Cut-n-Run" Murtha packing: HIT THE ROAD, JACK!)
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This article really is good news! Imagine, children who grow up in big, loving families with two parents. They learn to negotiate, share, not be greedy and selfish, and value each other. They're the PERFECT antidote to all those welfare spawners, and we need more of them!

My husband and I only wanted two children (we have one of each with our son born first), but my SIL has five and my youngest sister and her husband had their first last March.

Honestly, this shouldn't even be a religious or conservative v. liberal issue. Normal families with moms and dads are the ultimate prize and reward for kids, adults, and society.


17 posted on 10/17/2006 8:05:49 AM PDT by Kieri (A Grafted Branch (Rom. 11))
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The future belongs to those who bother to procreate ...


18 posted on 10/17/2006 8:06:23 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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In a culture where sex is viewed solely as a form of recreation instead of procreation, survival is iffy at best.


19 posted on 10/17/2006 8:07:48 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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Those who breed lead.

Yeah, that World Power Zimbabwe is a great example...

20 posted on 10/17/2006 8:08:42 AM PDT by Warren_Piece (Smart is easy. Good is hard.)
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