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Having Babies…Does It Matter to God? Back on August 22 the local paper reported that Maine has the 8th lowest rate in the US of babies per 1,000 women of childbearing age. New Hampshire and Vermont come in first and second. It’s not that people are leaving these states… it’s that people aren’t being born. Our culture has already aborted more babies than the population of Canada. Imagine, we have wiped out an entire country!! No wonder there is no one to work, or buy our homes, or take care of our elderly. There’s more…More U.S. Women are Childless 'So much of our culture has made kids seem like big sacrifices and a big inconvenience.' One in five U.S. women in their early 40s has no children, according to the Census Bureau. That's double the level from 30 years ago and a record high. Women age 40-44 who do have children have fewer than ever — an average of 1.9, according to the report. “A lot of women are not having any children,” Jane Lawler Dye, a Census Bureau researcher who did the report, told The New York Times. “It used to be sort of expected that there was a phase of life where you had children, and a lot of women aren’t doing that now.” Candice Watters, who left her job at Focus on the Family in 2002 for full-time motherhood, said most women want to have children but may be waiting too long. "There is the perception, perpetuated in large part by Hollywood, that you can wait until your late 30s or even your early 40s and have a baby without too much trouble," she said. But "it's really difficult for a woman over 40 to conceive." And the culture isn't helping, Watters said. "Women feel cultural pressure to get all of their schooling done, and much of their career-building done, before they even start to think about marriage," she said. "My advice is to make getting married and having babies at least as much of a priority as your education goals and career goals." Watters addresses those issues in her new book Get Married: What Women Can Do to Help It Happen. Carrie Lukas, vice president for policy and economics at the Independent Women’s Forum, agreed the culture shares responsibility. "So much of our culture has made kids seem like big sacrifices and a big inconvenience," she said. "There is something to being an increasingly secular society and being a little self-absorbed in not thinking about the legacy you want to leave." If you are still with me… it gets even worse. Last weekend, the Christian Civic League held their annual banquet. The featured speaker was Don Feder. To see a preview of the documentary, Demographic Winter, go here… http://demographicwinter.com/index.html My friend heard Mr. Feder speak in Washington DC. Here is her summary of his talk Below are statistics and brief summary of Mr. Feder's remarks: Humanity is failing to reproduce itself - in significant numbers. In order to replace the population, women need to give birth to 2.1 children each. Since 1979 worldwide, birth rates have fallen by 50%. In 1969 average woman gave birth to six children. Today, women are having an average of 2.9 children. In countries of European Union, the average birth rate is now 1.5 children per woman. Italy & Spain - 1.2, Russia – 1.7. With a birth rate of 1.3 or below, population will lose half its population every 45 years. With the current population downturn, fewer workers will be available to meet the needs of the growing elderly population. By 2050 there will be 2 workers for every retiree in Europe. 20% of industrialized world's population is over sixty years old. By 2030 it will rise. With 2 senior citizens for every child, how will we begin to care for the rising elderly population? Enter: Euthanasia? "Who will run the factories, farms, military, how will the economy survive with less workers?" says Don Feder. Over past few hundred years, the population has grown from 980 million people to 6.5 billion people. That population explosion has fueled every industrial revolution. The world has seen growth in productivity, scientific research, and more. What happens when population declines? We’ve never experienced this phenomena before. Don Feder has written a new book: "Demographic Winter" – Could it be the suicide of the West? Don Feder says, "This is a culture that seems to have no obligation to the past, and no responsibility to the future." Here is a synopsis of the documentary: Demographic Winter: Decline of the Human Family One of the most ominous events of modern history is quietly unfolding. Social scientists and economists agree - we are headed toward a demographic winter which threatens to have catastrophic social and economic consequences. The effects will be severe and long lasting and are already becoming manifest in much of Europe. A groundbreaking film, Demographic Winter: Decline of the Human Family, reveals in chilling soberness how societies with diminished family influence are now grimly seen as being in social and economic jeopardy. Demographic Winter draws upon experts from all around the world - demographers, economists, sociologists, psychologists, civic and religious leaders, parliamentarians and diplomats. Together, they reveal the dangers facing society and the world’s economies, dangers far more imminent than global warming and at least as severe. These experts will discuss how: The “population bomb” not only did not have the predicted consequences, but almost all of the developed countries of the world are now experiencing fertility rates far below replacement levels. Birthrates have fallen so low that even immigration cannot replace declining populations, and this migration is sapping strength from developing countries, the fertility rates for many of which are now falling at a faster pace than did those of the developed countries. The economies of the world will continue to contract as the “human capital” spoken of by Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker, diminishes. The engines of commerce will be strained as the workers of today fail to replace themselves and are burdened by the responsibility to support an aging population. Government programs will slow-bleed by the decrease in tax dollars received from an ever shrinking work force. The skyrocketing ratio of the old retirees to the young workers will render current-day social security systems completely unable to support the aging population. Our attempts to modernize through social engineering policies and programs have left children growing up in broken homes, with absentee parents and little exposure to extended family, disconnected from the generations, and these children are experiencing severe psychological, sociological and economic consequences. The intact family’s immeasurable role in the development and prosperity of human societies is crumbling…. My Note: Meanwhile, women like Phyllis Schlafly worked hard to push back the feminist movement and the lies it was telling us and our daughters. Then along comes Sarah Palin… an evangelical-born-again-pro-life-Christian with a large family and in one presentation, she undoes the few voices of the Titus 2 women and declares to our young ladies – don’t you dare question my decision to do this. I CAN have a family and I CAN have a career. I CAN do it all. Leave me alone.” Pray that Sarah will change her mind before it’s too late for her marriage and her own precious children. Me again: I know I’m running very long but this is an important topic to me… If we want to see victory over our enemies and the enemies of our great nation, we need to learn from the Israelites Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land." Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel. Ex 1:8-11 This is why I want to be President. FOR MORE INFORMATION Read more about the upcoming book from Steve and Candice Watters, Start Your Family: Inspiration for Having Babies. |
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