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Originally Posted by Suave
You can't seriously tell me you're blaming a Somolian for having 7 kids, when with the infant mortality rate and life expectancy, they probably only expected 3 of them to survive max.
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Uh, yeah, I am blaming them for it. First, if you can't get enough food for yourself, or you're living in a land of political persecution, bringing kids into the situation isn't wise in any culture. Second, after you have 6 of them on the ground surviving, the cultural need for the 7th is questionable, and the 8th after in this country is just jawdropping. The article said it was the number of rugrats that was causing this to be a problem.
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And not only that, anyone would have a lot of trouble if they had to move to a new culture.
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I don't doubt that, and especially coming from an area that was like the Stone Age.
While I'm thinking of it--and it has nothing to do with what I replied to--did anyone else notice that it was a Lutheran group providing services via a federal subcontract? I wondered if that was part of Bush's much decried plan to have private charities help in cases like this. Sounds like it, anyway, and despite the emphasis on the problems presented by this one family trying to live where the rent is too high for them (and others), it may be a plan that is working overall.
I wonder how many Muslim groups are providing such services for Lutherans?