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In reply to the discussion: Personally I think China's 1 Child Policy to be socially responsible policy [View all]FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Glad to hear you and yours are doing so well.
No its not fair in regard to how women are treated in that respect and I agree with you. I've raised 3 boys and we have had those discussions. I come from a family of 10 children and my father spent 5 years in the Novicia at Layola before deciding he didn't want to be a priest.
I also remember during the 60s the UN and the USA sponsored programs in developing countries where starvation from over population was prevalent. Men who had fathered 2 or more children were offered $40 or a Transistor Radio to undergo a vasectomy. It was a good program and sorely needed in the countries it was offered in. Keeping them "Bare foot and Pregnant" is one of the oldest forms of oppression used against women through out the world and I see no need for starving children to be born so that some one can bolster their flailing ego.
Sadly Ronald Reagan and his Moral Majority (who later proved to be neither) put an end to such common sense. Now we have tele-evangelist preachers playing late night info-mmercials begging for money to feed the starving masses of children in some impoverished country and the preachers skimming 10% off the top for themselves.
Its a sad narrative of our society