tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post111817228854703116..comments2024-03-20T16:30:09.690-05:00Comments on The Fifth Column: Suffer the ChildrenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-1118353892335122482005-06-09T16:51:00.000-05:002005-06-09T16:51:00.000-05:00Good like s/b good luckGood like s/b good luckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-1118352310460056472005-06-09T16:25:00.000-05:002005-06-09T16:25:00.000-05:00One other significant factor in low birth rates am...One other significant factor in low birth rates among industrialized nations is the simple cost of having children. Just for birth, assuming no complications, you are looking at $15,000+ per child if no insurance coverage. True, the poor get charity care and for the most part, medical providers won't go after them. But if you're making $50-75,000 a year, then they will be more likely to pursue a claim against you. Hence, you have more to lose and therefore less likely to have kids. Good like trying to find affordable maternity coverage if you are small business or self employed. The GOP's wonderful new bankruptcy laws that eliminate discharge for credit card debt even if for medical bills certainly does not help (so much for family values). I have no doubt that these are some of the sinful structures which pressure one to choose death (or infertility) over life that JPII had in mind that tend to get ignored.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-1118289218528068412005-06-08T22:53:00.000-05:002005-06-08T22:53:00.000-05:00Actually, the Japanese have had R and X rated comi...Actually, the Japanese have had R and X rated comics for years. It is no coincidence that the Japanese also have the lowest fertility rate in the world at 1.29.Steve Kellmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509461318016670424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-1118229420530023302005-06-08T06:17:00.000-05:002005-06-08T06:17:00.000-05:00Actually, in the late 70s, comics were dying and t...Actually, in the late 70s, comics were dying and the comic book industry changed tactics. Now, Marvel, DC and other comic producers no longer consider comic books the realm of teens and pre-teens, but specifically for adults - that's where the money is. Go into a large comic book store in any town now and you will find far more R and X rated comics than the "clean" comics that were mainstream just 15 years ago. Then, the media continually promotes the horrible scienceless idea that nature is dying and will take us all with it in the next few years because of overpopulation. Add to this the pro-death culture pushing adult decisions like abortion without parental consent unto them; Disney pushing beer drinking, drug popping 20ish actresses as role models for teens and pre-teens; clothing manufacturers that make pre-teen clothes that only a stripper would wear; and you find that not only is Western society delaying adulthood, there is no place left where the children that are still around can hide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com