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It's more than that. Since time began, people have been having children they cannot reasonably expect to feed , let alone shelter or otherwise support. The bible is full of the " be fruitful and multiply" thing. It also calls for rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. But that's another story for another thread.
Generally speaking, life expectancy is lower in those areas with high birthrates. The lack of jobs, services, government aid, education and so on has done nothing to cause most people from having as many children as possible.
Producing children is viewed as the primary purpose/obligation of life.
Reckon so. Wonder what it is about Darwinisn that the least capable of supporting children seem to have the most
religion of many encourages child birth without the means to support that birth.
all of them point here to get it fixed.
not good.
japanese call it cow bird behavior. having other creatures raise your offspring by leaving your young in their nest.
With that mindset, their church can help support the children they can not afford. NOT the taxpayers. This country needs people that take responsibility for their own actions, and that includes the financial aspect, short of a tragedy.
There was a time when folks had large families partly because not knowing any better, but also because they were farmers and needed the extra hands. Medically, not all of their offspring even lived to the age of 18. Now, with the advancement of medicine and only one percent involved in farming (at least here in the US), there is no excuse to have a large family if you can not afford to care for them.
We don't need any more dumb people in the world which you would have to be, to have a large family you can not afford.
And what if the person is agnostic, non-practicing or even atheist? I don't think all will go get help from a religion...
Is it morally wrong to have lots of kids if you don't have the money to support them?
Yes. In order to have children, people should be forced to:
1. Take a course in the psychology and child raising education.
2. Obtain a child bearing license and undergo a psychological evaluation.
3. Have a background check and credit check performed.
4. Show their last six bank statements and six months of pay stubs.
5. Produce three references who are not family members.
It ought to be at least as difficult as renting an apartment.
It's wrong for the children. They are the ones that suffer. I don't think anyone can agree that that is right.
I know of 2 young girls that are sisters. Neither is married or working and each had 3 kids each.
Come to find out one girl just found out she lost custody of one kid today. One boy will be staying and living permanently with the baby daddy's mom so one child will be raised by a grandma.
The other 2 children of this girl go from house to house living with different ones because the mom left and moved across country to be a prostitute and to appear in a porn. Wow, what a great role model she is. She abandoned them for about a year. She is now back living with her grandma and is trying to get her other 2 kids back. Personally I just think she liked the money she'd get from the government and the baby daddy in child support if she got them back. I don't think she really actually cares about them. She's too into drugs and acting like a gangster to care about anyone but herself.
The other girl with 3 children had 2 children and then had to go to prison for robbing someone at gunpoint. After getting released from prison she immediately had another baby. OMG. What's wrong with these people????? She lives with someone that she's had arrested twice for domestic abuse. She keeps letting him move back in and she claims he beats her up in front of the kids. What I don't get is why does Social Services allow this girl to take this guy back into her trailer with her kids? How is that right? I don't understand.
BYW there are different baby daddies with these kids and most of the kids have mental or physical issues due to the moms not taking care of themselves while pregnant...i.e. drugs, drinking, etc.
The one that got out of prison had one of her sisters take care of one baby and one baby daddy mother take care of the other. What a big hot mess. I feel like eventually she'll lose her kids too or more grandmothers will end up raising. How fair is that to the grandmothers to have to raise kids again?
I'm not making this stuff up. I swear this is some crazy stuff. The girls if they work, don't hold a job long at all. They want to sit back and collect government money and let their families do a lot of babysitting and supplying of food and fun times.
I just feel for the children. They are the ones suffering and more than likely will have mental issues when growing up from living in different places and being so neglected.
What the answer is, I don't know but this has always been a sore subject with me.
I used to work in the ER and I remember these single moms coming in with 10 kids and their medicaid cards with all their children's name on it. I always wondered why in the hell they had so many kids when it was evident they couldn't afford them. Sure I know their thinking is the more you have, the more money you get from the government and they were raised that way, etc......still doesn't make it right at all. Again it's the kids that suffer for their idiot mother's dumb decisions.
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Yes. Absolutely!
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which you would have to be, to have a large family you can not afford.
