Reading Power Line I came across this sad reflection of our times, that "nearly 20 percent of women born in the late 1950s are reaching the end of their reproductive lives without having had children." So, I linked to the Foreign Policy article, The Return of Patriarchy by Phillip Longman, and found the following information, which is even sadder: "..single-child families are prone to extinction. A single child replaces one of his or her parents, but not both. Nor do single-child families contribute much to future population. The 17.4 percent of baby boomer women who had only one child account for a mere 7.8 percent of children born in the next generation. By contrast, nearly a quarter of the children of baby boomers descend from the mere 11 percent of baby boomer women who had four or more children. These circumstances are leading to the emergence of a new society whose members will disproportionately be descended from parents who rejected the social tendencies that once made childlessness and small families the norm. These values include an adherence to traditional, patriarchal religion, and a strong identification with one’s own folk or nation."
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
What an incredible disservice the feminists did to those of us who came of age in the late '60's and '70's!
Posted by Barbara Dillon Hillas at 4:48 PM
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