I don't know about the rest of you, but my public schools (starting in 6th grade) drummed into us that using birth control and not having children was essential if there was going to be enough air to breath, water to drink, land to farm. Remember the “Population Bomb” (Ehrlich) and “Future Shock” (Toffler)? Half of the people I knew from school didn't marry, don't have children, and think they are the intelligent ones. Maybe if they stop indoctrinating white kids around the world with that crap, there would be more white kids in the future... Good post. I think we're about the same age.
Mrs. Don-o,
To your list of reasons why there are no children, I'd like to add hostility - between the sexes. There have been many threads here lately on why people think marriage just isn't worth it. It's very sad.
Hostility between the sexes--- YOW, I agree with you strongly. It's all over the FR forum. It shocks me, frankly, because I've seen very little of that among the people close to me in all my long years, but at FR it's on display all the time on certain threads--- wherever a male/female heme comes up. And of course, not only at FR: it seems to be pervasive in what you could call the public culture.p> Maybe I mean the media culture.
The Sexual Revolution was supposed to make people so flexible, natural and free. So why are males and females, venomously in college, even in high school, seething with bitterness toward each other?
I thank heaven I have been pretty much sheltered from that. Pretty much.