People in Crisis - Why do they continue to have children?
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Anonymous
you are mixing this poster up with someone else. |
Anonymous
I don't think so. She wrote: "Who said I'm white, you nitwit? You really are embarrassing yourself." Then, when someone wrote that she does "sure sound white", she replied that she is Indian. You can go back from there to see her views on the topic. |
Anonymous
You are insane. I called out the OP for not understanding the issues that refugees face. I am Indian and am well aware of the problems in my country and how women/people don't always have free choice for having children. I'm not sure what you're ranting about. |
Anonymous
You are completely confused. |
Anonymous
Thank you for the links. What I gleaned from them is that Latin America is basically a rapist culture. So again, why do we let males come? Makes that are used to taking a woman by force with no punishment? Yes there will always be American rapists but our country has laws. It doesn’t breed rapists like Latin America does (I will cite the links you provided above for my proof on that.) |
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Anonymous
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Something seems to be missing from this discussion.
Refugees come from somewhere, someplace that at one time was considered home. Home might have been an exceptionally difficult place, but it was still a place where people live, people have families, people grow up, people have more families. In some cases, stable communities have been ripped apart over a relatively short period of time, such as by war. In other places live has always been more difficult and becomes progressively more difficult, but people still live real lives, which means they have grandmothers and aunts and uncles and fall in love, but at some point weighing the difficulty and danger of staying where they are against the difficulty and danger of trying to go somewhere else, the choice to leave is made. Life where someone lives in a difficult and dangerous place is tolerable until it isn't. And sometimes that choice is made given the prospect of seeing your young children face life in a place that is becoming more and more hazardous. Besides that are the additional factors such as trafficking, rape, lack of access to birth control, and in other ways having limited control over one's life and circumstances. Also, many refugees--how many I have no idea--are attempting to join family and extended family members in the US, with the hope that lives for them and their children can get better. |
Anonymous
By want something to want and need them, and a baby provides that to them. This has been studied for decades in poor countries and in generational poverty groups in America. |
Anonymous
Those populations are not the same as refugees. You’d be shocked how many refugees are people who were once middle class. This includes women who thought they would be childfree or have two or fewer children. Women who were lawyers, doctors, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Then, something unthinkable happens to force them to seek shelter in another country. These are not women who need a baby because they have nothing else that is their own. |
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As she reported on the Syrian war at its peak and traveled to refugee camps across Europe, she met hundreds of women who’d decided to flee their homeland. Most were well-educated and middle-class. Some had worked themselves; a point of pride. Now, they lived in tents or cheap metal structures, at best. Amanpour watched them and wondered: “They’ve survived the war, but how does the heart survive? How does love survive? How does sex and the desire to be intimate survive?”
—https://www.elle.com/culture/a19417399/christiane-amanpour-sex-love-around-the-world-interview/ A need for Intimacy, love for a spouse, and desire for children, for the hope that children represent, survive. They may never be the reason why people keep the will to survive and rebuild. |
Anonymous
| Why are some women so bitchy and evil? |
Anonymous
You don't think MC/UC people have children for the same reason? |
Anonymous
NP no. I wanted children because I thought I could give them a good life. If my life was unstable I would never have had kids. |
Anonymous
This is how many people fool themselves. Life is unpredictable. Husbands die in traffic accidents during the last trimester. People with newborns get fired. Wars break out. Wildfires turn east. The only way to ensure your children will never know instability is to ensure they are never born at all. |
Anonymous
| Why do people in public housing, on welfare have multiple kids with different fathers? They have no sense of future planning, no access to birth control etc. govt should offer free IUDs at multiple locations around the city. Anyone receiving social services should be required to attend a class on family planning. |