The following comments are simply the words of the entitled. People have
kids since they are the best life insurance policy there is for many
people in the world. A guy by the name of Mamdani did a study in India
of government, Rockefeller and Ford foundation family practices and found
that the larger the family the more wealth. Children provide surplus
labor in the developing world. Another thing to remember is that rich
kids use a heck of a lot more resources than poor kids so it should be
the rich who limit their family size. I doubt if the ratio is still
valid as India moves to have the world's largest middle class but at one
point the average American used 50 times the raw resources as the average
Indian. When you figure that the Indian population is 3.5 to 4 times the
size of the US population, you can see where the arguments about the poor
needing to control the number of the children they have is spurious. It
is certainly better for the poor to gamble on having more children and
hoping that one makes it than to spend money on lottery tickets.
Bill Ward, President
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:35:50 -0800 pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Good question. I've often thought that a lot of
> >"working class" persons could have had a better life
> >style had they not had children.
>
> [...]
>
> >In our grotesquely overpopulated world, I think it is
> >obscene for even rich persons to have more than
> >two children.
>
> You know, the working class folk I know, and I don't know how
> representative this is of the world in general, are not completely
> oblivious to the wider social implications of their breeding
> activities.
>
> When asked "why have so many kids?" a typical response is "so
> there'll be more of us compared to them", wherein `us' means
> variously our family, our ethnic group, our political or
> philosophical
> persuasion, our social class. There is even a sense of getting
> back at the rich who oppress us by outbreeding them into oblivion,
> the ultimate long term revenge, and one of the few options open to
> the powerless. The fact that this will lead to trouble for everyone
> eventually doesn't seem to make much impression, even when
> eventually
> is not a long way off. The attitude seems to be well, if things
> are going to be grim in the future, I'd better breed some more so
> at least some of my offspring will make it through...
>
> -Pete Vincent
>
