Posted on 02/28/2006 1:23:15 AM PST by beaversmom
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Then a toddler, a child, a teen, an adult, a posterity.
They'll under-breed themselves out of existence.
Meanwhile, the ever more extremist Muslims of Britain have five (slightly exaggerated) kids each.
For just one generation. At max.
After that, they are all dead!
Posterity comes when the son sticks you in a nursing home, because the new honey doesn't want you around.
The good news is self-absorbed, high-maintenance women will not reproduce more offspring like themselves.
Being a academic educated man and living in good ole Europe I am quite familiar with women who refuse to multiply. The proportion of childless academic women is around 40% here in Germany. During the time I attended univercity nearly all my girlfriends (I had a few) told me that they only want to become pregnant if it will be compatible with their career. Since being pregnant and having kids is never compatible with careers, quite a lot of them never will have a own family.
Another effect of this standpoint is, that others of them are desperately trying to get pregnant when their time to be fertile is simply over after they reconsidered the whole thing. Not all couples are able to get kids when they hit the 40ties.
Last but not least many men simply do not want to have children anymore when they are 40, 50 or even 60. Since it is typical that many woman are much younger than their husbands it can be a real problem for men to start a (new) family in their mid 50ties. I wouldn't do that either. Besides there is a broad movement among European men to renounce traditional families because the divorce rate is at nearly 50%. It is not funny to be a cash cow. The changed moral conditions made it easy in western Europe to live with girlfriends without being married. Nobody cares about the sexual behavoiur of others as long as no one has to deal with material loss or damage.
I am among those who did it quite traditional. I am married to the nicest and prettiest girl you can think of and our three wild little boys are the proof that it was worth doing it.
The funny thing is, that we have many childless female friends with academic grades in their late 30ties, who are absolutely crazy about my kids. Sometimes the boys are really fed up with their "aunts" trying to kiss them all over. Although of course they like the expensive gifts, they hate being a substitute for some frustated friends of ours. We even had to cool down some relationships a bit. Do not get me wrong - not all women are that way, but some are for sure.
I think it is a fact that human nature can not be tricked. If a woman decides to live without her own kids (this can be very reasonable in some cases) she usually has to pay a bitter price.
That's terrific! Thank you for your perspective from across the Atlantic.
The self-absorption of the women interviewed in this piece is truly breathtaking. I'm glad that they have decided not to reproduce.
Your post is an interesting personal account. I understand Ms. Merkel is asking Germans to have more children. Another article on this site spoke of the coming demographic implosion in England and what steps the government might take to change things. I am not convinced government can. There is a spiritual aspect to childbearing/rearing that I think Europe has lost in some ways. One of the women quoted in the article seems to deride Americans who go to church. Sheesh. This lady, and others like her, are trying hard to convince themselves of something that, deep within, the are not comfortable with.
I think you are right--and you can't legislate that--at least not in the west. The remedies that I have read all have to do with money incentives and parental leave. That kind of government remedy won't work and is part of the reason they are having problems to begin with.
Hopefully she will be dead before the Muzzies come to lop off her head. Such a thing is really not very pleasant at all. Of course, if nobody has babies in the West, such a thing is quite inevitable.
Of all the comments posted to this story, you chose mine to respond to.
Go back and read my comment. You'll find that you and I are in complete agreement.
I suggest that you should get off your own horse and allow other people to express their opinions. If you don't like those opinions, simply leave the thread. Nobody is making you read it.
THAT is the freedom and liberty of FreeRepublic.
Meanwhile, the Muslim population continues to grow.
don't worry. the children self absorbed women dont have will be replaced babies from welfare queens and bums. And then some
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