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I played by the rules. Don't have children unless you can afford to support them yourself.
Now I feel like an idiot. I am constantly bombarded with people who have kids who cannot afford them, are on public assistance due to them, or their kids suffer due to lack of birth control and common sense.
What gives?
I played by the rules too, but...
It's not a business decision to most people, it's a very emotional one and it doesn't always have to make sense. Poor people get to reproduce too you know.
What worries me are people that have kids for all the wrong reasons - people who have kids, but are not willing to make the sacrifices to raise them properly. They expect to maintain their single/partying/DINK lifestyle after the kid comes along, and as soon as it is inconvenient or not as cuddly they pawn them off on various services and schools.
I played by the rules. Don't have children unless you can afford to support them yourself.
Now I feel like an idiot. I am constantly bombarded with people who have kids who cannot afford them, are on public assistance due to them, or their kids suffer due to lack of birth control and common sense.
Oh, c'mon, while part of what you say may be true, I see just as many people from all races doing this thing. One has to get a license to drive a car, but just spread one's legs for a baby. Sorry, but true.
Over 70% of black and over 50% of Hispanic women have children out of wedlock.
Whites are around 25%. So no, just as many people from all races are not doing it.
Wow ... you REALLY need help. Seriously, log off and don't post again. Is anybody else seeing this? I said something about illegal immigrants, this person replies back with a comment about race, I ask what what I said had to do with race and then he/she tells me to refer to my OWN posts because apparently, I meant to say brown people.
Mistygrl, stop assuming stuff and just accept the fact that you were wrong in this situation and maybe you should use this as an example of how not to try to read people's minds when they haven't even given you any reason to think something.
That's wrong. How would you like it if someone put words into your mouth?
I think mistygrl092 is a troll after reading several of her post...
I played by the rules. Don't have children unless you can afford to support them yourself.
Now I feel like an idiot. I am constantly bombarded with people who have kids who cannot afford them, are on public assistance due to them, or their kids suffer due to lack of birth control and common sense.
What gives?
In the animal kingdom, only humans have a "survival of the weakest" mentality. All other animals survive with "survival of the fittest".
We encourage having kids by spreading the costs over the entire population. We have tax credits, shared school costs, etc, so parents only pay for a part of the cost of having children. Since our population growth is out of control, we should eliminate these subsidies.
In the animal kingdom, only humans have a "survival of the weakest" mentality. All other animals survive with "survival of the fittest".
We encourage having kids by spreading the costs over the entire population. We have tax credits, shared school costs, etc, so parents only pay for a part of the cost of having children. Since our population growth is out of control, we should eliminate these subsidies.
We're breeding personal responsibility out of our population.
Government assistance and societal and family pressures.
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