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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just tell her calmly at the beginning of the conversation that you're going to hang up if she brings it up again. Then follow through. Repeat until she gets it.[/quote]

I don't know if this is something that I would just instigate. The way I grew up - a) you don't talk back to your parents, b) you don't call them by their first names, and c) you don't end a conversation (on the phone or otherwise) - they do.[/quote]

If you parents immigrated here from someplace else, you need to tell them that it's an all or nothing deal. The economic success that they sought by coming here stems from a high quality labor model. Couples have a small number of children in which they invest heavily, and they don't have kids until they are able to pay for preschool , a house in a decent district, and college. These expenditures require a decent income, which most households need two salaries to obtain.

You don't get prosperity when most of your households have lots of kids, young mothers, one salary households, etc. Those days left when farms became able to supply the nations foods with 1% of the labor supply, freeing other people to do something more productive that requires more training. You don't get to have American prosperity but keep the ways of the old country.[/quote]

Please stop the patronizing. there are plenty of young mothers in the US. I am an immigrant, too, and Americans are much more likely to have children they can't afford than people in my old country [/quote]

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