Posted on 12/26/2018 6:15:16 AM PST by Liberty7732
“My siblings and I would be horrified to put any kind of burden on our parents.”
Same with my sister and me. I’ve said I’d be a bag lady before I’d ask my parents for a dime. My sister, too.
Sadly, our brothers, although raised in the same home, have had no problem hitting up Mom and Dad for financial help, even though Dad was a poor country preacher, and we lived in the “poverty” level.
Change our tax law; it’s that simple. Make the financial incentive for US citizens to have larger families so strong that those who delay children because of financial constraints will no longer have a reason to wait.
We have brought in 35 million legal permanent immigrants since 1990. Legal immigration is a far bigger problem. We have just had three of the four highest decades of legal immigration in our history.
We have 5 kids on one very average-sized salary and some work on the side. Most of our friends have more kids than that--and all the moms stay at home. We moved to the country where we could afford a modest but decent-sized home, and we go without a lot of stuff. Our cars are all used and are beat into the ground before we get a new one. Hand-me-downs are the rule not the exception. We don't take expensive vacations--heck, we hardly take vacations at all.
Now if you say "citizens can't afford kids because they have a certain lifestyle that they want to cling to, and blah blah..." well then that's a different story.
The sad fact is that Americans are more and more prioritizing pets and material possessions over kids. Family life is in shambles and that's not helping either.
Good for them!! And good for you too!! :)
Thank you!
The laughter and chaotic joy fills the home when they all arrive, then just as quickly disappears into quiet when they leave.
We enjoy the peace too, and the laughter in the walls.
There is if you know where to look. We have 5 kids, and in my little corner of traditionalist Catholicism, we are the small family. No abortion, no birth control, and no divorce. Of course we are a tiny numerical minority nationally but....logarithmic growth curves and all! And I understand similar things are happening in some Protestant communities and Orthodox Judaism.
Help is on the way...whether it'll be enough I dunno.
Mass deportation is needed asap this isn’t a 3rd world country yet.
My dad’s birthday is on Christmas Eve. We took a picture of him and mom surrounded by 10 grandkids (5 of them ours). He was beaming.
The laughter is in the walls....wow. What a powerful image, and I think it’s true.
No, the best solution is attrition thru enforcement.
“Spoiled, entitled, selfish young women are a big big big big BIG part of the problem in my experience.”
There WERE a couple of men involved in both stories that you told.
What’s your opinion of them?
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The liberals have convinced our children they are damaging out environment by having kids. Then same liberals say ooh look y’all ain’t have enough kids so we need rrfugees (to come and damge the environment?).
The earth belongs to those who inherit it.
Thank you for the anecdotal shopping-trip musings.
So much better than the hard data we were stuck with before you posted.
How many families did you know growing up that had 4-6 kids. That was pretty much the norm in my suburban area.
As anyone under 30 how many families they went to school with who had more than 2 kids.
THAT is what the story is about.
Sure you might see newborns all over the place. Do you see families with five or six kids?
Ohhh. Snarky, huh? I guess Santa left you a lump of coal.;-)
I see very few large families if any.
BTW, I think the most recent birth data published is for 2017. Not exactly up to date.
Actually he gave me a really nice pair of Gucci drivers - but I'm still a-hole despite having nice things.
But yeah; should have gotten the coal. :)
Read Marc Steyn’s book “America Alone” and you will understand why this is so distressing. At the time of writing, America was right at the edge of “replacement births”. Europe is under siege and falling under the pressure of Islamic refugees because those countries have be at minus replacement for decades. The countries that gave birth to Western culture and technology are doomed.
If we go down that path, there is no coming back.
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