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[quote=maril332][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, the vast majority of the world's growth/birth rate is coming from the developing world.  I'm not saying its a good idea for every family here to have six kids, but to act like a family who wants 4+ kids is draining the world of its resources is so incorrect it's funny.  [/quote]

In what way? Are families with 4+ kids not somehow subject to basic mathematics? [b]If each of those four kids has four of their own, and each of those decides to have four.[/b]... That's a lot more kids than if two each had two and so on. To say that the problem of overpopulation is solely that of the developing world is incredibly ignorant. For one thing your average American uses far more resources, on just about every level than does someone in the developing world - even if you live on a totally self-sufficient farm (you dig your own well, septic field, and build your own roads, phone and cable lines? You grow your own flax and spin it into yarn and weave your own cloth?....) , there's zero guarantee that your children will choose the same, low impact lifestyle.

To pretend that the reproductive choices and health care available to women in the US at all relates to those available to women in developing nations is offensive. They're frequently denied the ability to use birth control, when it's even available, and due to a lack of available medical care, they're far more likely to lose children to all sorts of diseases. Your decision large family has every bit as much impact as does large families elsewhere.[/quote]

But who says that is likely to happen?

That logic doesn't make sense. You could be from a small family (having only 2 sibs) and then decide to have 12 kids. Whereas someone's 6 kids could have 1 kid each and still have less that the kids from the small family had combined.

Isn't it more likely that children raised with a HUGE family (im talking Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar here) will grow up to only have 2 or 3. I believe that Im the person the OP was talking about. I have 5 kids and we are considering a 6th. Both of us are from a smaller family. DH was an only and I have 1 sib. [/quote]

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