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aemeijers

More options Jul 7 2008, 1:14 am

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From: aemeijers <aemeij...@att.net>

Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:14:46 GMT

Local: Mon, Jul 7 2008 1:14 am

Subject: Re: Bush STILL Pushing Increasing U.S. Population

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Lord Gow333, Conservative Fullback! wrote:

> "aemeijers" <aemeij...@att.net> wrote in message
> news:lL2ck.99005$102.26145@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> Yer Pal Al wrote:
(snip)
>> Better a single parent with time and sanity to care about the kids,

> No such thing. They may mean well, don't get me wrong, but parenting is
> a two person, two GENDER job. And I don't give a damn about the politics
> of the situation, the fact is men and women bring different abilities to
> the table and children benefit from them both. Rather than saying that
> angry couples should or should not stay together "for the children", I
> say the dumb selfish bastards shouldn't have had the kid(s) to begin with.

Well, you're preaching to the choir on that one- a significant
percentage of the people shacking up/marrying and having kids are not
competent to perform any of those duties. Except for the small matter of
there not being anyone competent to sit in judgment about people's skill
sets, I'd say that having kids should require a training course and
getting a license.

But reproduction, like love and lust, is by definition an irrational
process. The genes want what the genes want. And once the kids are
there, you don't get a do-over. You have to make do as best you can.

But I still say a single parent household is better than a broken
2-parent household. BTDT, from the kid side. Once they only saw each
other a few hours a month, they got along a lot better. And both of them
were able to devote quality time to us young ones. The older kids,
separated from us younger ones by several years, said it was traumatic
as hell to be going through adolescence in a battle zone.

--
aem sends...

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