Comments | evr1bugsme: hap-py mother's day

evr1bugsme

hap-py mother's day

May 11, 2008 12:21

since i don't really have cable anymore I spend a lot more time watching these three stations of PBS, including the sunday political talkshows. well, that was a poor decision! "to the contrary" the women's political show was on as i was leaving to go to the farmer's market (yay! it opened last week, but appears to have far less produce, i hope this ( Read more... )

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otioseandtrite May 11 2008, 23:15:07 UTC

"why can't we focus on teaching people not to have kids till they can afford them?"

How is this anything but a lucid, valid question?

evr1bugsme May 12 2008, 03:32:00 UTC

ahshsahdashaha

because the issue isn't that people have kids because they can't afford them because they think the government will take care of them. maybe 5 people do that, but that's not why most people have kids and to approach the question that way is just really insulting. people have kids because they want kids. because they like sex. because they can afford them and then the unforeseen happens and suddenly they are poor. because of a million reasons that sex ed alone is not going to touch in any meaningful way.

and that doesn't even touch on the issue of waiting to have kids having it's OWN problems.

is sex ed important? absolutely. is sex ed the answer to peoples' need for child care? no fucking way!

otioseandtrite May 12 2008, 04:09:14 UTC

Shouldn't the issue be that working couples CAN'T afford to have children? Why is the blame cast solely on the couples involved, and not the socio-economic system that makes childbearing and rearing a privilege reserved for those who "can afford it" (i.e., comparatively wealthy middle-class white people)? At what point did social and economic Darwinism become the prevailing undercurrent in American thought?

otioseandtrite May 12 2008, 14:49:55 UTC

At what point did social and economic Darwinism become the prevailing undercurrent in American thought?

Around the time of the Agricultural Revolution.

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satanscientist May 12 2008, 12:39:10 UTC

Wow, that's a real question? Humans are animals. Humans will breed. Kids will happen. No matter what your socioeconomic background, you can't plan stuff like that.