HomeschoolDad:
A lot of the “chastisement” for abortion (and contraception as well) may be that those people, who want to have more children, who welcome them, and who view increasing numbers of themselves as a good thing, who recognize that children are the only hope for the future, will eventually take over by sheer numbers. The few will be ruled by the many
Do you think these views are inherited? What chromosome are the genes that code for them on?
I have to think it is culture-defined and not genetic. Cultures that prize fertility, inculcate this in their children, and they grow up seeing it as “normal” and desirable. These tend to be communitarian cultures, where “everybody’s got everybody else’s back”, people “live in each other’s pockets”, there are extended kinship networks, economics are seen as cooperative (the African concept of
umoja), and very often, there is an agricultural aspect to it. In these cultures, large families are seen as a sign of wealth, prosperity, and yes, femininity and virility as the case may be.
Now contrast this with affluent, modern, westernized society. People either want to have one, two, or possibly three children, “timed just-so”, compact, orderly, “bespoke” families where resources can be lavished upon a small number. It is good to want to have order and prosperity, but the hard reality is, unless couples have somewhere between two and three children, they are
not even replacing themselves, let alone multiplying. Their cultures and societies will either die out, or be replaced through immigration and greater fecundity among groups within those societies that have more children. That is just reality, that is just simple math. And there are many of these children who do not have children themselves — that is why an average of two,
and just two, children per family is
not replacement level.
If cultural groups and social demographics want not to ensure their numbers, that is their choice, but they need to realize that they will lose power and influence in a democratic society, and will be ruled by those who
have chosen to “be fruitful and multiply”. Their call.
I freely admit that, through bad life choices in earlier years, I myself failed to “practice what I preach”, and I only have the one son. I wish with all my heart, that I had possessed the resources, circumstances, gumption, and foresight, to be a father to at least three or four children. It didn’t happen that way, and much of it is my own fault. So I am not hectoring other people from some position of perceived self-superiority.
I am part of the problem myself.
and are now reaping the fruits of this misplanted seed (rioting and an out-of-control virus.)