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lurkette · 10-14-2005, 05:42 AM

In the rural farming town where I grew up, it was common for the Apostolic Lutheran families to have 12, 16, 20 kids. The older ones often raised the younger ones, they ate in shifts, and they got a lot of free government cheese, (but so did the rest of us - the whole town was dirt poor). If the mothers didn't die in childbirth, they often died young from other medical complications related to being a brood sow. (/snark) It's a hard life to choose, and I can't imagine why anybody would do it. I'm a zero population growth proponent, so I think it's selfish to have more kids than enough to replace yourselves. But what are you gonna do - kill 'em? Enforce a 2 kid rule? Free country, people are free to be as stupid as they wanna be, and if you want to give stuff to support this kind of idiocy, you're free to join in the stupidity.

10-14-2005, 05:42 AM	#4 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	In the rural farming town where I grew up, it was common for the Apostolic Lutheran families to have 12, 16, 20 kids. The older ones often raised the younger ones, they ate in shifts, and they got a lot of free government cheese, (but so did the rest of us - the whole town was dirt poor). If the mothers didn't die in childbirth, they often died young from other medical complications related to being a brood sow. (/snark) It's a hard life to choose, and I can't imagine why anybody would do it. I'm a zero population growth proponent, so I think it's selfish to have more kids than enough to replace yourselves. But what are you gonna do - kill 'em? Enforce a 2 kid rule? Free country, people are free to be as stupid as they wanna be, and if you want to give stuff to support this kind of idiocy, you're free to join in the stupidity. __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France