http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/1983 A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:30:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/1983#comment-3287 gbm3 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/wordpress/archive/1987#comment-3287 "If children are valued so much, why is the birth rate in this country still below replacement and why is abortion still so popular?" -FD<br /><br />Perhaps, after people stop contraception and other disposals, they're ready to value their children and have only the number they want.<br /><br />(M. Sanger: No unwanted children.<br />And more: http://www.eadshome.com/MargaretSanger.htm )<br /><br />We should value all children at every stage of development as gifts of God.<br /><br />---
Perhaps, after people stop contraception and other disposals, they're ready to value their children and have only the number they want.

(M. Sanger: No unwanted children.
And more: http://www.eadshome.com/MargaretSanger.htm )

We should value all children at every stage of development as gifts of God.

—]]> http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/1983#comment-3288 Jerry Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/wordpress/archive/1987#comment-3288 It's not so much that we do or do not desire children, I submit, but rather that the desire is present, but is quite out of whack. In the name of advancement or independence or whatever, we put children on hold till the 11th-hour, biologically speaking, then hemorrhage money on fertility treatments that may or may not work. <br /><br />Once a child is born, nowadays they will be exposed to sexuality and corporations targeting them as an important market. They will be pressured at very early ages to buy the "right" clothes, and the girls will be tarted up like so many Britney Spears. They won't have a childhood per se.<br /><br />But they will have a childhood later on, if they're "lucky", with a mid-life crisis and idolization of the mythical carefree times of childhood. <br /><br />I think that the crux is not so much that we do not value children or childhood as a whole, but rather that we value them in bass-ackwards ways (indulge meam Gallicam).
Once a child is born, nowadays they will be exposed to sexuality and corporations targeting them as an important market. They will be pressured at very early ages to buy the "right" clothes, and the girls will be tarted up like so many Britney Spears. They won't have a childhood per se.

But they will have a childhood later on, if they're "lucky", with a mid-life crisis and idolization of the mythical carefree times of childhood.

I think that the crux is not so much that we do not value children or childhood as a whole, but rather that we value them in bass-ackwards ways (indulge meam Gallicam).]]>