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To: Between the Lines

I fail to see what the big deal is. I had 3 kids, the oldest of which is 22 now. I could have had more but 3 is enough. I think somebody has been sold a bill of goods about big families. The biggest problem I can see is all these folks moving to smaller communities making the communities BIGGER and eventually turning them into what they moved away from.


3 posted on 07/06/2005 1:00:33 PM PDT by swmobuffalo (the only good terrorist is a dead one)
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To: swmobuffalo

Well, I used to know a guy like this (7 kids). He was suffering from a maniacal delusion that he was a rabbit, while he was not.


4 posted on 07/06/2005 1:18:39 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: swmobuffalo
all these folks moving to smaller communities making the communities BIGGER and eventually turning them into what they moved away from.

Don't worry! Even if I move my family of ten to Fishbite Falls, it won't turn into Chicago overnight!

9 posted on 07/06/2005 2:34:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I am saying that the government's complicity is dishonest and disingenuous." ~NCSteve)
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To: swmobuffalo
I fail to see what the big deal is. I had 3 kids, the oldest of which is 22 now.

I raised 4 kids, the youngest is now 25. When they were children we were treated like we were aliens for having what they perceived as a "large" family. Friends, business associates, employers, schools, restaurants, etc. all acted as if it was a great imposition to accommodate us. Couple this with the fact that we were young parents (we were both 22 when our youngest was born) in a time that it was popular to wait until you were in you mid thirties to have children, and everyone thought we were a freak show.

The idea of having one or two children at most is the norm today, except in poor or church going families. Western Europe has already demonstrated that a culture with declining birthrates is a culture in decline, and if we cannot turn this "norm" around, you will see the US become like them.

10 posted on 07/06/2005 2:46:49 PM PDT by Between the Lines (Be careful how you live your life, it may be the only gospel anyone reads.)
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