to be amazed at how many people are still having 4 or more children?

[JackShit]

Yikes! I'm going to get a new one ripped here, but this has been bugging me of late.

Our planet isn't in a particularly marvelous state. Overpopulation is a very real problem. We are responsible for the legacy we leave our children and surely part of loving them is to be concerned for their future quality of life on this planet.

I know there are a lot of people with larger families on MN and I need to understand why, in full knowledge of the facts, people continue to have so many children? Just read a thread on facebook where a woman was proudly stating she has 11! 11 ffs!

I don't go for the argument about some having only one or two so it cancels out and I also don't believe in replacing our ageing population problem with an even bigger one.

So what am I missing here? Do people just not really give a shit? Does biology take over?

I have 1 btw.

Plus having one child always begs the question will they never experience a sibling bond? That was reason enough for us to have more than one.

Sosix - depends on if you had many just because you can

I'm Catholic
and FYI all of you heathens with your hormonal contraceptives are going to hell.

I'd rather be a mother of six loving offspring than beelzebubs bitch for all eternity.

Yes lemonade you give veracity and seriousness to the argument for the larger family

idiunt not a beelzebubs bitch but a mum of four....

it wasn't veracity I was aiming for, more facetious ambivalence.

123 plenty of people with brothers and sisters don't experience the 'sibling bond'. It doesn't necessarily follow that siblings will get on!

lemonade the beezelbubs bit doesn't exactly scream ambivolence

dixie not condoms aren't ok
you'll burn in the eternal fires of damnation which is arguably preferable to the eternal buggering courtesy of satans pork sword that comes courtesy of the pill/rod/injection et al

:o If I were in the mood to name change I'd be BeezelbubsBitch.

Even though I was doing NFP and have the accidental baby bump to prove it

idunit I accept no responsibility for your interpretation of my postulation.

personal determinal cerebral responsibility and all that jazz

lemonade and also the eternal buggering courtesy of satans pork sword

just saying

MrsDeVere yes I thought about it. It's pretty basic thinking. Did you?

soz dix it seems I made the schoolboy error of assuming condoms were somewhat passe....

my bad

I can't be bothered and don't have time to read the entire thread but why didn't you remain childless for the good of the planet op, if you are so worried about over population and think that people should put the planet's future before any biological or other desires for a family?

Yes AMummysWork lots of defensive responses.

lemonade I bow to your superior grasp of the situation.

But you do sound a bit mad*

*no offence intended to certified lunatics

BigPawsBrown if you're going to make comments like that RTFT?

oh I'm undoubtedly certifiable.

A distinct advantage around here.

lemonade can I be your friend?

Not only parent of large family (environmentally totally irresponsible) but also a lunatic of the manic depressive persuasion.

this thread may have made my blood boil but it has brought me closer to humanity and all that

BigPaws then you won't have read that I was told having children was not a possibility for me. I fell pregnant at great surprise at 36.

1 isn't the same as 5 or 6 though is it?

No JackShit 5 or 6 is better!

the number of people with 4+ children is so small as to be statistically insignificant

it really isn't a problem - in nearly all developed countries the birth rate is falling