Posted on 06/04/2010 1:27:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan
“Other than Mormon families those days are over I’m afraid.”
I agree the days of having over 5 children is probably over, except for some religious people and some few individuals.
But I still think that since in olden times when many people had large families many of those children didn’t live to adulthood and since now I reckon almost all children live to adulthood even 3 children for most women would replenish the population rather quickly.
Now, of course, you have so many women who have no children at all, who knows if this will really happen.
However, I venture that it is my generation, the boomers, who are the first group that has really been able to control their reproduction. This cohort is just coming into their “golden years” as my dad used to say.
It may be that the pitfalls of childlessness will become more apparent as this group continues to age.
For the record, before somebody asks me, I only have one child myself. It is one of my biggest regrets that I did not have at least another one or two others. But, well, it just didn’t work out that way.
Greece
The White Democrats' Utopia
Zimbabwe
The Black Democrats' Utopia
To doom them to a future under the yoke of socialism? No thanks!
(I’ve heard this from several younger, childless couples I know).
Steyn brilliant as usual
No incentive needed. Just cheaper booze and placebo birth control.
Sigh. This brings to mind John Ringo’s novel “Live Free or Die.”
We have already lost the reproductive war. It is too late, statistically, to catch up.
Interesting, yesterday I was reading readers comments from some article posted from The Guardian. I can’t remember what the article was about specifically(I think it was about how eating meat causes global warming), but I remember many of the comments of the mostly European readers were that overpopulation was a serious problem if not the most important problem in the world. And here these people are depopulating themselves out of existence. What fools.
Very well put.
“I’ve heard this from several younger, childless couples I know”
Oh yes, ever since there has been reliable birth control people have been giving “reasons” for not having children. All basically along the lines of the world is too messed up, in whatever way.
And I do agree it is a rather scary thing to have a child. I’ve often said that if I’d known how much I was going to worry about my kid I’d never have had one.
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