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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Enkido, I'm glad you are not in charge of decision-making. I said barbaric because I meant it. Please do not presume to translate my words to fit your own little manifesto.
One of my best friends is child 15 of 16. He is a teacher, coach, community leader, and active leader in his church. If his parents had agreed with you, the world would have been deprived of him.
I could not disagree with you more.
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I was talking about undeveloped countries, if his parents were well-off or at least middle class (US middle class) they might had been able to take care of them financially.
But can you seriously claim that each one of 16 children in the same family can get the amount of parental / emotional / social attention every child needs and deserves ?
Unless their parents are octopuses it would be VERY hard to acomplish.
It would be an acomplishment just to remember all of their names correctly !
I love kids and want to have kids one day, but I think for the sake of the kids themselves the optimal number is 2 or 3, 4 at the max. (1 is a lonely number).
And I think having 15 children is selfish and irresponsible, even if they love them all utterly.
And you call population control barbaric ? Limitless procreation without rational thinking - that's barbaric ! That's why everyone used to have 15 kids in the dark ages but only have 2.4 on average (in the West) today...