Side note:
So since it is more common for people to have one or two children. It is becoming more likely for only children to marry someone who is also an only child. and when this happens their children will have no aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, or nieces.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Well first blog post, And I don’t know what I want to talk
about.
We watched a video in class about how population is in decline.
This was something that I had never thought about. Before I was always taught
that the world population was growing exponential, but this video told that the
opposite was true, and that because we are in decline there are consequences we
are going to have to face. In class we discussed the different things that lead
up to this decline. Such as the book the Population Bomb which made people
think children were bad for the world. The women’s revolution, sexual revolution,
and divorce revolution, and the rise of individualism played a role in this
decrease. The thing I found most
interesting was the divorce revolution.
The divorce revolution started when California passed the no
fault divorce bill, which made it so anyone could get a divorce without proving
the wrong-doing of their partner. This lowered the number of children people
had because a time factor comes into play since it takes time to get married,
get divorced and get remarried if they choose to. The average marrying age has increased. It is now 26 for women and 28 for men for the first marriage. And even though men usually
remarry within two years after a divorce women take longer. And by the time they get remarried
their childbearing years are limited. And since divorce is more common people
hesitate to have children because if they divorce it causes difficulties for future
relationships.
Now for what I was thinking…
So agree that we should be having children and that it is good for the economy, our communities, and for a support group. And from a gospel standpoint we also need to have children, which I agree with. But I think that extremes in anything are bad. The extreme of having too many children is as bad as not having any children. I think that we need to be realistic when thinking about having children.
So agree that we should be having children and that it is good for the economy, our communities, and for a support group. And from a gospel standpoint we also need to have children, which I agree with. But I think that extremes in anything are bad. The extreme of having too many children is as bad as not having any children. I think that we need to be realistic when thinking about having children.
Well for not knowing what to say I sure wrote alot.
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