Posted on 02/25/2008 1:13:10 PM PST by Caleb1411
I’m doing my part, with four daughters, while living modestly, and driving the wheels off of the cars.
The children are blessed with good friends from good family’s. What not to like.
Can I quote you on that?
I don’t see why you blame Rod for pointing out the obvious fact that a great many people in today’s society think any appeal to the importance of demographics or families is just “right wing boilerplate,” and as such should be ignored.
I don’t agree with them, you don’t agree with them, and I don’t think Rod agrees with them, but they are a major force in our society, and they are completely dominant in Europe.
There are many large, strong families extant that are not Moslem. And they did not come about through arranged marriages. Believe it or not there are many Christian sects that believe in large families because they believe God did, in fact, join man and woman and make them one flesh and then commanded them to multiply and replenish the earth. And there are many men and women who have children because they love children and find real happiness and fulfillment in bearing and raising their children. And the fathers and brothers in these families do not kill their daughters and sisters over matters of “honor”.
I know quite a few people who have 4 or more children. These families are indeed a pretty sight. They are, virtually without exception, composed of loving, intelligent, active people. They also tend to be well-educated. They are also all committed Christians of one sort or another. They have struggles and challenges in their lives just like everyone else. But they tend overwhelmingly to strive to support and nurture one another even in the face of severe challenges. These tend to be quiet people. To me they are inspiring. They give me real hope for the future in the face of so much of the lunacy that is so rampant today.
Are you serious, Clark?
The Roman Empire didn't fall in the fifth century, the Western Roman Empire fell.
The Eastern Empire kept plugging along for just about a thousand more years.
Any claims about the "cause" of the Fall need to explain why the Eastern Empire didn't fall when the Western part did. Were families stronger in the East than the West?
BTTT
Homeschool, stay out of debt, and let the kiddies pay their own way in college if you aren’t rich. Problem solved : ) . . .
I stopped at 4....because I ran out of bedrooms.
And since I pay for their healthcare, and they are homeschooled I am getting ROBBED too!!
Regardless of the immaturity of the author, that fact needs repeating often enough that our society notice that it is a truism.
Good points. The strong traditional families of medieval times had a lot more in common with today’s Muslim families than with today’s Western families. Family members with power often exploited other family members, especially the females, quite ruthlessly.
“When the Roman Empire fell in the fifth century, the strong trustee families of the barbarian tribes replaced the weak, atomistic Roman families as the foundation of society.
The Roman Empire didn’t fall in the fifth century, the Western Roman Empire fell.
The Eastern Empire kept plugging along for just about a thousand more years.”
The eastern Roman empire was for all basic purposes destroyed by Mohammed in the 7th. Century. What pitiful remnant — Byzantium — that was left was finally finished off by Mehmet the Second in 1492 when he utterly destroyed Constantinopal.
Following on the heels of Greece and Rome? Oh yes we are. The handwriting is on the wall.
“I am not childless, I am childFREE!!!!!”
In a rather interesting way Dick Dheney’s lesbian daughter is more traditional and is following the Bible more than many people who are heterosexua but refusing to have kids.
No doubt about that whatsoever.
Love my two kids. I’d love to have two more, but my wife has made it abundantly clear that I would need to find a different uterus. Her’s is apparently closed for the season.
BTW: With a name like Cougar, I would have expected that you were on the PROWL for young men, not having them. ;-)
I find pleasure and children to be very closely correlated.
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