In this Catholic area, 2-3-4 kids seems to be typical, but 6 or more isn't unheard of. I would have a difficult time labeling any of those women anything less then empowered. Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc.
Zeke Yewdall wrote: > On 8/16/07, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> the evidence shows that as people's economic >> situation improves, as soon as they're not too poverty-stricken to >> feed their children, their breeding rate slows right down. >> >> The surefire way to do that is to empower the women, and especially >> to educate the women. > > Statistically, this probably is true. But in my experience, portions > of the US are not doing very well at this. The Mormon church in Utah > (about 60 of my relatives) still seems to be averaging 4 or more > children per family, even in good economic situations. True, this is > way less than alot of the developing world, but still way higher than > most of the developed world. I'm not as familiar with the evangelical > movement in the US, but I get them impression that empowering women is > not a high priority of theirs either. > > Z > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
