Breederville says YES!
Posted on 05/30/2007 11:21:26 AM PDT by qam1
That's just the reality that today's potential parents are dealing with, that's all.
Look, I don't have any problems with anyone having as many kids as they can afford. I also don't see why anyone who has a large family needs other people doing so seemingly for the purpose of justifying their own choices. You want a brown house, I want a blue house. Neither of us is better or worse for that.
Me, too. We have three or four in the $10 pool.
Irrelevant. It’s still about choices, especially for those well-enough off to agonize over overpopulation and the environment.
“...the angst that comes of bringing a child into a dangerous world...”
Just when was the world ever not dangerous?..............
If moron elitist liberals are so scared of the “dangerous world” why not do us all a favor and kill themselves?
Whenever i read about how much it costs to raise a child, and why that is an excuse not to have a child, I remember my econ professor when I was beginning my MBA classes. On the first day he asked each of us to introduce ourselves. Several were young men who were married for a few years, looking to improve themselves, etc. They mentioned waiting to begin a family when they could afford a child. The professor answered, “If you wait until you can afford it, you will never have one. Forget about that, and have a kid, then you can figure out your finances. Otherwise you’ll end up childless.”
What does it tell you?
You intended this for someone else,I think, but thanks for the information. I disagree on only one detail. Phonics is not necessarily the way some kids learn to read. My son was beat over the head with it, but did not learn to read until he was twelve when we found that he is a “sight” reader. He has a devil of a time listening to lectures and getting information that way.
If I were to have kids, and did not move to a self sufficient home schooling community in a remote area, I predict that I would be involved in numerous confrontations down at whatever school I sent them to including private ones. I’d also fight a losing battle trying to keep them from getting brainwashed by the MSM, and all the spew on the web. Ergo, no kids. I guess what would make me want to have kids is a world that no longer exists, and has not existed since the 1950s. I would have been a great 1950s dad, I live in the wrong time.
Breederville says YES!
Yo, youngster with the great burden of carrying crosses that you clearly feel unfit to bare.
The very first commandment in the Bible, given to Man, was to "be fruitful, and multiply."
I am excited that you read and post here from time to time, but mostly I think that you need to grow up, read a bit more, and respect your elders.
You'll have none of that, and so down the road, you'll get exactly what you have given.
Time has a way of insuring such things.
THAT MAKES 19 GRANDKIDS FOR ME!!!!!!!"
"I like my cigar, but I take it out every once in a while. " -Groucho Marx
Gai kakhen afenyam
and I mean that in the nicest way.
An abundance of children to care for you in your old age is nature’s welfare and retirement system. Tinker with it at your peril. The womb is the real weapon of mass destruction, the excess populations are used to wage war.
Agreed, and the overpopulation and eco-nut reasons are just excuses that sound good over a cup of Starbucks with your trendy friends. However, one of the first choices that any man or woman has to make in the breeding game is to find a suitable partner. It's way easier for a good man to find a good woman, than it is for a good woman to find a good man. That's especially true if that good woman wants to get started with a family while she's still in her twenties, at that point, most men who haven't been taken are still on some sort of exteneded adolescence.
It's no wonder that a lot of women still find themselves without a man to father their children when they're in their mid-thirties. They just have not had good choices for "daddy" material.
I agree. It's a tough situation for many.
That you're Orthodox Jewish, and generally, you don't think the world has changed fundamentally for about the last two thousand years.
Again, as I've said, live your life any way you want to, as long as you can afford the kids. It's a lot harder to do today than it used to be back when you were doing this.
Ah, good, use an old, dead language to insult me, because you’d get banned for spelling out that phrase in modern English. Or the same deity that would get hurt by having his name spelled out might be offended, as well. But Yiddish is what he speaks when he’s having fun, Hebrew when he’s being serious.
Please don't tell me what I think. You are not a freaking mind reader.
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FREERIDING IS FUN!!!!
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