It's true that population control is a valid social discussion and something we need to look at. It's equally true that the 76-year-old lady wasn't thinking along those lines!
Pop control is a very valid issue, my problem with it is-- well, twofold. I don't understand how women who don't want kids, or more kids, could possibly continue to get stuck having them, you know? I understand one oops baby but if someone has 3, 4, or 5 kids- I have to think they want them. (Pregnancy is very taxing to say the least, too). In this day and age there is simply no excuse for a woman not to be smart enough to know how *not* to have kids. It's a complete choice to avoid pregnancy and the woman has so many options. No excuses. Men too.
So with that...in regards to people who are in favor of population control, how can you enforce or promote, or help, this if the women who are having kids *want* their kids and support them? What can you do about it, even if you see the facts of the environment and world resources? You're either preaching to the choir and women who are preventing pregnancies because they don't want kids/more kids, or you're preaching to people who want more kids, then it becomes an issue of- if they can support them and want them, how do you stop them from continuing to have them? I guess I just see that unless something passes into law- a limit on kids per family or something, not much can be done except focus on the people who don't want pregnancies. And again, how do you find them if they don't seek info? Do you just do what the old lady did and bark out birth control advice to people who look like they have too many kids?
LOL......sigh...now I'm almost smiling, about to laugh. I am starting to get a kick out of this story. I do bet the lady who gave the advice surely didn't think it would cause this much of a stir. *laughs*. I wonder if she would have had any advice for me the other day in the grocery store. I'm pregnant and showing, waddling around, my daughter has a tantrum in the store and lays down in the aisle, I am trying to prod her up to take her out of the store, and there she lies. She is a good girl and in line 99% of the time, she hadn't had a nap and was being kind of sassy. Well, I had to get a prescription from the pharmacy and as soon as that was done I was struggling to remove her from the store. If I was not pregnant, I'd have just hoisted her up and that would have been that, but due to my "condition" I'm not able to just snatch her up, so it was a struggle. When I got her out of there, I straightened her out, put her in time out, and removed toys for the afternoon. But what could I do in the store? Not much. Someone watching us would have thought she's spoiled, not realizing that she'd disciplined, she does not get away with that, and she's usually **good**. They could have come to all kinds of conclusion and presumptions about my situation (and boy was I mad...I was furious). So if someone had said something, it would have peeved me for sure. I handle my business. Thankfully, people were either pointing and laughing, or giving me sympathetic looks. :croc: Lots of room there for presumption, though. Did I mention I was embarassed? And soo tired from struggling. It was just a bad preschooler day. I sure wouldn't have found birth control advice to be cute though.
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