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In reply to the discussion: Heritage paper on families calls for 'marriage bootcamp,' more babies [View all]valleyrogue
(2,587 posts)38. Fewer and fewer women are bothering to marry and have kids. They LIKE being alone and having their own
money.
There is no incentive in the world that will EVER force, coerce, or "encourage" them to marry and reproduce.
Marriage is on the way out in the West, as I have said many times. High birthrates will never return because the 1950s were aberrant.
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Heritage paper on families calls for 'marriage bootcamp,' more babies [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Yesterday
OP
Just what sane people don't need or want - Think Tanks in their bedrooms
bucolic_frolic
Yesterday
#1
How About A "Mind Your Own Fucking Business" Bootcamp for the Heritage Foundation . . .
hatrack
Yesterday
#2
"Heritage paper on families calls for 'marriage bootcamp,' more white babies"
Ray Bruns
Yesterday
#6
I got my vasectomy at Planned Parenthood for only $400. saved me millions.
multigraincracker
Yesterday
#8
No, they will just make it illegal for women with young children to work outside the home
DBoon
Yesterday
#28
How about encouraging more births by giving young couples hope that their children will not inherit a destroyed country
LaMouffette
Yesterday
#15
I decided I didn't want kids, then later in life I regretted it (just a little bit), but NOW I'm glad I never brought
LaMouffette
9 hrs ago
#44
Fewer and fewer women are bothering to marry and have kids. They LIKE being alone and having their own
valleyrogue
Yesterday
#38
Yup! I can't blame them. Patriarchy is an evil force. This is why the white Christian nationalist racists are so worried
LaMouffette
9 hrs ago
#43
They seem to forget we are Americans and all during our lives we have been told
samnsara
Yesterday
#16
The Heritage foundation was always an anti-communist right wing propaganda outlet. the irony here is that they are
Martin68
Yesterday
#19
Some say no to kids because of 1) life and health of mother is being disregarded, 2) economy and 3) fascism
lostnfound
Yesterday
#20
They're forgetting one important point. No sane woman wants to hop in the sack with a Republican.
Vinca
Yesterday
#30
Sadly, there's no big shortage of insane women -- just look at Trmp's cabinet.
eppur_se_muova
Yesterday
#33