Excellent piece! Your title was very arresting—immediately made me recall Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” Amen to
“If nations want to increase their birthrates, it’s not enough to pay women to have babies. Women need to have public support and confidence that their government and all governments are working to make the world safe for their children.” Sad that we have to make this clear over and over and over.
I have noticed that converts tend to be especially assertive in their faith. At the risk of offending many...their extreme positions and intolerance of others are the indicators of all cults.
You tackle a very difficult question. There would be a lot to discuss. To be very honest, I personally regret that not more women in western societies, well educated, career orientated and freedom loving, get more children early on. They are just the mothers we would need. At least in Germany or France a very large percentage of children are born to mothers with a different culture from ours, mostly far "behind" what women's lib has achieved during the past 50 years. (What "behind" may constitute, of course, is seen by many of them in very different ways.) Women's freedom of choice is very important, of course, but it may not be all.
I completely agree with you on the necessity to raise boys with a more civilized sense of manhood.
Well put!
Excellent piece! Your title was very arresting—immediately made me recall Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” Amen to
“If nations want to increase their birthrates, it’s not enough to pay women to have babies. Women need to have public support and confidence that their government and all governments are working to make the world safe for their children.” Sad that we have to make this clear over and over and over.
It's like we're banging our heads against the wall repeating ourselves...maybe one day politicians will put it all together and listen!
So great. I was pounding the table!
Thanks!
Why are converts to Catholicism so extreme? Maybe extremism is always paired with conversion.
I have noticed that converts tend to be especially assertive in their faith. At the risk of offending many...their extreme positions and intolerance of others are the indicators of all cults.
Amen!!!
You tackle a very difficult question. There would be a lot to discuss. To be very honest, I personally regret that not more women in western societies, well educated, career orientated and freedom loving, get more children early on. They are just the mothers we would need. At least in Germany or France a very large percentage of children are born to mothers with a different culture from ours, mostly far "behind" what women's lib has achieved during the past 50 years. (What "behind" may constitute, of course, is seen by many of them in very different ways.) Women's freedom of choice is very important, of course, but it may not be all.
I completely agree with you on the necessity to raise boys with a more civilized sense of manhood.