Posted on 04/26/2008 1:27:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
TORONTO, April 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Plummeting birth rates have resulted in the closure of over 300 schools in Ontario and half of the province's school boards have 90,000 fewer students than they did six years ago. 300 schools are slated to be closed in the province simply because there are not enough children to go into them according to a report by People for Education.
"Much of the funding that school boards receive is based on numbers of students," the report said. "As a result, fewer students equals less funding, fewer programs and, in many cases, closing schools." The losses in this report are in addition to the 110 school closures in Ontario between 2004 and 2005.
Four years ago, University of Toronto economics professor David Foot called then-record low birth rate the "revenge of the birth control pill." Foot, the author of 1996's Boom, Bust and Echo, a book on Canadian demographics, said the widespread use of artificial contraception was responsible for fewer children being born in the 1960s and 1970s. This left fewer women of child-bearing age for the next generation, today's mothers.
The number of live births for every 1,000 people, plunged by 25.4 per cent between 1993 and 2005. Despite slight increases, Canada's total fertility rate in 2005 was 1.54 children per woman, an increase of only .01 per cent, but which, nevertheless, is the highest rate since 1998. The latest report from People for Education estimates that there will be 500,000 fewer students in Canada's schools in the next 10 years.
The Ontario Ministry of Education has predicted that by 2010, total elementary and secondary school enrolment will drop by nearly 100,000 students from 2002 numbers.
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/johnny/
Is there some reason White folks nowadays don’t like/love each other enough to procreate?
The left doesn’t mind to see us die because the white man is responsible for all the evil things in the world.
Canada needs a lot more immigrants. They won’t do too bad if we send them some illegal immigrants up north.
Not to worry.
When the Super Trans-Highway gets constructed, they will have a free flow of newbies coming in from Mexico and southward.
NAFTA, etc.
Paging Felipe Calderon. And they're Christians!
Yes. Because white people are not worthy of love. Haven't you been watching the news?
Decades of preaching marriage is slavery and overpopulation will lead to environmental destruction has taken its toll.
Birth rates have crashed in all people, all over the world, except Muslims.
I've seen a little booklet that Planned Parenthood put out decades ago = donated to the schools - that had an exercise for young girls to list the things they'd like to be/do when they grew up. It admonished them that getting married and being a mother didn't count.
Good for them.
There are plenty of kids worthy of adoption. If someone wants children they do not need to get a frankenbaby.
“The declining birthrate can be laid at the doorstep of out-of-control abortion on demand”
And on the desire for material things, which desire is fed by advertising, which causes people to work not just to feed, house, clothe and recreate, but to work to satisfy the lusts of the eye and the lusts of the flesh, for ever more and more things, which all perish with the using of them anyway.
Many of the newer houses are monstrous in size in so many areas, and they have no ‘families’ living in them, and no children and no love They are just empty tombs with no life in them, and they have no yards, no gardens, no nothing; except tidied little plots of grass where foo can go poo poo.
To have all the things which advertizers produce the lusts for means people forego having children, in order to work for the toys and things to satisfy the cravings of the flesh and eyes.
That’s my rant about the state of our own nation, anyway.
Welcome to the world of “Me”.
Just ask the Shakers.
“Birth rates have crashed in all people, all over the world, except Muslims.”
Maybe Christians should be just as devout in following God’s word about having children.
Any doubt that abortion is one of the biggest reasons? Sad. Pray for all the little ones who have lost their lives.
More like they are too in love with themselves (selfish) to procreate
Yes.
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