The Birthrate Wars

[starshiptrooper]

Your article was a screed about how the big bad Nazis are under the bed along with a heap of gross distortions, outright lies, and false comparisons.

 

[garegin_asatrya]

You’re a redskin who wants to save the white race? Unless by native you mean from England.

 

[LittleFlower]

Your article was a screed about how the big bad Nazis are under the bed along with a heap of gross distortions, outright lies, and false comparisons.

This is completely incorrect.

Anyone reading this will think that CAF, and by extension all white Catholics in the US think like you—which they hopefully don’t. Because if they do, by heavens!!!

 

[starshiptrooper]

My heritage is predominantly European just like the original settlers. My family has been here for generations. What else do we need to qualify for native status in a country founded and largely inhabited by people with mixed European heritage?

 

[XndrK]

I don’t see why it matters what your heritage is. Ideas count more than skintone.

I’ve told you before that I don’t think it would matter if you switched the genetic stock of Native Americans and Europeans; Europe would still have conquered the Americas and everywhere else because European civilization was better in a fight.

 

[HerCrazierHalf]

I shudder at the thought of “babies for the sake of babies”. (And I love babies)

I think we’re supposed to be open to life, and God will send us the babies we need and who need us, each one a precious gift and an individual person.

Same here. I think one of the biggest drivers of the demographic shift is choice. Not abortion, but the easy to implement choice of whether or not to have children at a given time.
I suspect that before my time babies were simply a highly probable result of martial relations. But the usage of abc suggest and the number of friends whom were told they were “accidents” suggest that the desire was always there but not the means.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

I prefer “wonderful surprise” to “accident”.
But if you’ve ever parented teenagers, you quickly learn that each one is an individual person, who deserves to be loved for their own sake (not in a sentimental way–they can drive you crazy on a daily basis).
I love big families and have known successful, loving large families, and they’re very cool–but it can be easy to get caught up in the idea of “big for the sake of big” or “that’s what Christian families do” (think Quiverfull), and lose sight of the fact that these kids aren’t window dressing, but persons who God sends to us for us to guide and serve them, and it’s not always going to be fun.
Of course, not every couple lovingly and prayerfully decides to try for each kid–biology has a way of dong that LOL

 

[HerCrazierHalf]

“Accident” was simply the phrase used when they relayed that info to me, but “wonderful surprise” is much better.

Towards the biology aspect, I’m wondering if even that would prop up birthrates in the coming years. Unmarried adults outnumber married. And a huge portion of unmarried aren’t in a relationship or looking.