Walk in nearby park

[Duppers]

My hubby often takes our big Lab for walks in the big nearby nature park. Yesterday he saw a couple walking their with 5 children with another child on the way!

What's the matter with people like this?

- mother of one here

[snowybirdie]

1. Mother of

Judge not least he be judged

[lamp_shade]

2. You're kidding.... right?

[Bayard]

3. Obviously they are not considering what kind of world these children are going to inherit,

Some of these children may have been adopted though, and that would be a good thing.

[Duppers]

4. That would be the most wonderful option!

I should remind the posters above who replied:

"An increase in population will inevitably create pressures leading to more deforestation, decreased biodiversity, and spikes in pollution and emissions, which will exacerbate climate change."

https://www.populationmedia.org/the-latest/overpopulation-cause-and-effect#:~:text=disasters%20like%20pandemics.-,Ecological%20Degradation,which%20will%20exacerbate%20climate%20change.

There's a good reason China mandated their one-child rule.

[hunter]

5. I'm the child of a large family and so is my wife.

Both our parents had more children than they could comfortably support.

Our moms had lots of babies and their religions celebrated that.

Oh the accolades they got in church.

My wife and I, and all our siblings, did not carry on that tradition.

When my youngest sibling started school my mom became an advocate for Planned Parenthood, realistic sex education, and universally available birth control. I think she was worn out from having children.

Being uncomfortable with abortion, my mom also told us that any unexpected children we had would be welcomed into her home. This scared the hell out of me and my siblings, especially as teenagers all crammed into a small three bedroom house. Or worse at times. (I've told some of those stories here on DU.) Not one of us had children until we were out on our own and firmly established, away from the madhouse of our childhood.

You can't dis anyone who is already born on this earth, we are all human by the luck of the draw. All you can do is look to the future and determine where we might go from the present.

My mom almost had it right. It's the economic and political empowerment of women, realistic sex education, and the universal availability of birth control that will solve the problem of human overpopulation.