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I have one nephew. My wife has no nieces or nephews. How sad. But typical. (My brother was only recently married, but figures to have only one or two.)
I've written about this before. The practical materialism of esp middle class whites will spell the doom of the American way of life. Middle class people--the "lower classes" from the aristocracy's point of view, it's interesting to note--have historically voluntarily limited their family size, unlike their social betters (nobles prideful of familial blood) and peasants (children are an economic asset to the farm). But never to this extent.
The college-educated American white woman has something like 1.2 children (on average) over her lifetime. What's needed for mere population equilibrium is 2.1.
I have a brother and a sister; my wife has two sisters. All are or have been married. Out of these four, how many children do you think have been produced? One.Extended family is the reason Americans survived the last Great Depression; the absence of extended family is the reason we won't survive the next one.
I have one nephew. My wife has no nieces or nephews. How sad. But typical. (My brother was only recently married, but figures to have only one or two.)
I've written about this before. The practical materialism of esp middle class whites will spell the doom of the American way of life. Middle class people--the "lower classes" from the aristocracy's point of view, it's interesting to note--have historically voluntarily limited their family size, unlike their social betters (nobles prideful of familial blood) and peasants (children are an economic asset to the farm). But never to this extent.
The college-educated American white woman has something like 1.2 children (on average) over her lifetime. What's needed for mere population equilibrium is 2.1.
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