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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:21 PM Original message |
Are low/falling wages now threatening the American family and the ability to have/raise children? |
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Dawgs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. People not having children is the best thing that could happen to this world. |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I agree that overpopulation may be humanity's #1 crisis.. |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. I agree |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. If lowered wages reduce the birthrate, it will be the only positive |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
4. Probably not. |
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Dr Morbius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. I doubt it. |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
6. Even people who don't have children |
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proudohioan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. You could be on to something there. |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Exactamundo. |
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proudohioan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. You are very welcome... |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
8. Wouldn't it be better if we had less children? |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 10:31 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. I'd be repeating reply #2.. |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 11:22 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. No disagreement here. NT |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
9. Nope |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
11. No. The US birth rate is not falling, but increasing. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. the increase in the birth rate since the 70s is entirely due to the large increase |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:54 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. So, they shouldn't be counted in USA birth rates? Or the recession wouldn't have any affect on them? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 10:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. you seem to have missed the point. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
14. The opposite is demonstrably true. |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 03:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. The baby boom generation would refute that. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
15. Ever see Idiocracy? n/t |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop! Like Rabbits. |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
18. YES!!! We pay 400 a week car for our twins...it's overtly expensive and I live in Texas |
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jxnmsdemguy65 (481 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
20. From what I can tell, the only people who can afford to have kids are doctors... |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 08:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I agree 100% |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
24. Money didn't make me change my mind about procreating |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. No, counterintuitively, it is the other way round |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
26. The middle class was destroyed long ago. |
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cap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
27. People are being paid below subsistence |
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