Posted on 11/25/2010 2:11:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged young girls to marry at age of 16 in his latest rejection of the country's once effective family planning program, local newspapers reported on Sunday.
Following record birth rates in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran implemented an internationally praised family planning program in the 1990s that dramatically reduced the growth rate. Ahmadinejad has criticized the program as an ungodly and a Western import.
"We should take the age of marriage for boys to 20 and for girls to about 16 and 17," he said, according to the state-owned Jam-e Jam daily. "The marriage age for boys has reached 26 and for girls to 24, and there is no reason for this."
Since coming to power in 2005, the Iranian president has sought to increase of the country's population, which is already at 75 million, with a third between the ages of 15 and 30.
In July, he inaugurated a new policy to encourage population growth with financial incentives for every new child born, having previously said the country could feed a population of 150 million.
Critics said the policy will only exacerbate unemployment, currently set 9 percent officially. There are an estimated 3 million unemployed people of working age in the country.
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Could be worse, it could be 9.
16?
Where does he think he is, Kentucky? < ducking for cover>
Iran is currently at a fertility rate of 1.8 which is below the minimum replacement level of 2.1.
Iran’s birth rate plummeting at record pace - Up Front
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_1_63/ai_96417139/
Sex, drugs and Islam
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KB24Ak02.html
“Iran is dying. The collapse of Iran’s birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever. Demographers have sought in vain to explain Iran’s population implosion through family planning policies, or through social factors such as the rise of female literacy.”
“But quantifiable factors do not explain the sudden collapse of fertility. It seems that a spiritual decay has overcome Iran, despite best efforts of a totalitarian theocracy. Popular morale has deteriorated much faster than in the “decadent” West against which the Khomeini revolution was directed.”
Two indicators of Iranian morale are worth citing.
First, prostitution has become a career of choice among educated Iranian women. On February 3, the Austrian daily Der Standard published the results of two investigations conducted by the Tehran police, suppressed by the Iranian media. [1]
“More than 90% of Tehran’s prostitutes have passed the university entrance exam, according to the results of one study, and more than 30% of them are registered at a university or studying,” reports Der Standard. “The study was assigned to the Tehran Police Department and the Ministry of Health, and when the results were tabulated in early January no local newspaper dared to so much as mention them.”
Second, according to a recent report from the US Council on Foreign Relations, “Iran serves as the major transport hub for opiates produced by [Afghanistan], and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime estimates that Iran has as many as 1.7 million opiate addicts.” That is, 5% of Iran’s adult, non-elderly population of 35 million is addicted to opiates. That is an astonishing number, unseen since the peak of Chinese addiction during the 19th century. The closest American equivalent (from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health) found that 119,000 Americans reported using heroin within the prior month, or less than one-tenth of 1% of the non-elderly adult population.
Lower birthrate than USA. At least we have the Mexicans to do the procreating for us.
Trust me, they are making up for it when they immigrate to Canada.
My daughter and son-in-law had their first baby a year ago, and she was the only white gal in the hospital. It felt very strange to visit - it was like I was in some foreign land....
I know a woman with a 25 year old daughter who does not want to have children. Why? Because raising children is a lot of work and she isn’t into that.
I guess if American men want to have children it’s time to focus on having them get married to Mexican women.
Funny you said that, my older brother just married a Mexican woman.
Is she wanting to do the job American women don’t want to do? Does she have a sister?
So he wants to increase their age at marriage?
Thats a good thing, right?
Moslems are taught to hate women and creation, so they’re all busy circle-jerking themselves instead.
If ya ain't married by 16 in Kentuck, it means ya better start lookin' outside the family...
16?? Why what self respecting Muslim would want any woman older than 7 or 8 years of age?? 16 is like an old woman, over there, isn’t it?
Why not be like their demon prophet and make it seven?
Mahmoud is planning to export his excess Muslims.
“We should take the age of marriage for boys to 20 and for girls to about 16 and 17”
In America, they call that a sex crime now. And you get the scarlet letter of sex offender to follow you around for the rest of your life.
Keep in mind that as soon as the Shah lost power, the religious nuts who moved in quickly changed Iranian law to conform with Shariah, permitting marriage at the age of 9 years old, based on the example of the 52 year old Mohammed who married his last wife (number 29). She has just turned 9 years old. He had marked her out to marry when she was 6.
Like most women who are foreably married so young, she was so damaged that she never had any children.
Moving the age of marriage to 16 would be a 7 year improvement in Iran.
It is worse for Iran than the 1.8 children per women suggests. Only 50% are Persians, who are not reproducing. The Arabs, Turkmen, Azerbajanis, Kurds are reproducing. In about 15 years, the Persians will be a significant minority.
Why? Because the smart and well educated women refuse subjection to the current religious troglodytes. Taxes are high, so the wealthy can not afford the harems with tens of children.
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