Posted on 03/15/2011 7:26:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’m beginning to sound like a broken record but I tell as many people as I can. The more “stuff” we get rid of, the happier we are. We have been purging for a couple of years now but got really serious about it a couple of months ago. I want bare bones in this house!
For starters, it’s so much easier to care for. The kids can do a lot of the chores and actually do a good job! Not so overwhelming. The kids actually play with the few toys remaining (and we avoid battery operated as much as possible). We are no longer worried about my husband taking a pay cut(he makes well under 6 figures) because we don’t buy “stuff” anymore. Our meals are more simple which makes grocery shopping and meal planning a breeze.
I am able to stay home and homeschool our 5 children (number six comes in October) and we get by just fine. I don’t have to pay for daycare. We’re not concerned about paying thousands upon thousands of dollars for a big college. It just isn’t necessary anymore.
I love daydreaming about how many grandkids I may have someday. I hope I live long enough to enjoy them! :0)
“What’s happened is that governments have stepped in and taken over this function, so instinctively people are avoiding having kids because, what the heck, we don’t need them.”
Yes, but that implies that those same systems for taking care of folks in their old age will continue to function. So if you assume that social security and your friends will take care of you when you can’t then by all means having kids makes no sense from an economic perspective. Lots of money in, nothing much in return.
BUT if you assume that all these nice little social constructs are built on sand, then having children is a mighty nice insurance policy. Not to mention a lot of fun in their own right.
While I don’t like the demographic trends in the macro sense, in the micro sense I can’t say it bothers me much. If vain, egotistical, self-centered people choose to not breed and end up deleting themselves from the gene pool, I can’t say that it’s going to keep me awake at night.
“I can see that as I have seen people having way more than two kids now a days.”
Economics at work perhaps? What person under the age of 40 actually believes that social security will exist when they’re 65?
chicken - egg
Don’t blame me. Kid #6 will be born next month.
you are mixing up Islam and Arabs.
Iran, for all it’s problems, has plenty of engineers and scientists...ditto for India, and Egypt for that matter. Of course, most of the smartest ones emigrate elsewhere.
But the corrupt dictatorships are the problem, and these dictators use Islam as a tool to stay in power.
i did my part...five little crackers in a nuclear traditional family
i feel so guilty
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"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy." ~ John Maynard Keynes
Anything to make Keynes unhappy.
Oh, I also have 5 boys.
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