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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChelsea Clinton gave birth to a baby boy this morning
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This morning we welcomed our son, Jasper Clinton Mezvinsky. We are overflowing with love and gratitude and cant wait to introduce him to his big sister and brother.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Congratulations to the Mezvinskys and Clintons!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)dlk
(11,563 posts)mcar
(42,311 posts)Bettie
(16,101 posts)new little one.
WhiteTara
(29,706 posts)with the reproduction. We should begin to self impose children limits in order to feed them all, no matter your own circumstance. 7.7 billion people now live on this planet.
gopiscrap
(23,759 posts)EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)So too will the Chicken Littles of demographic decline wait for Godot. We stand at the ready to repeat the mistakes of Paul Ehrlich's cult. This time, we age into oblivion.
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-debunking-population.html
Titled Population Bombed! Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change,
Desrochers and Szurmak write in their book that the predictions of doomsters have not been borne out by reality, and this is not the time to listen to them.
Desrochers notes that "population-growth catastrophism" dates back thousands of years, although it is now mostly associated with the British economist Thomas Malthus, who wrote a book in 1798
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-malthus-is-still-wrong/
you forgot the sarcasm thingie.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Marengo
(3,477 posts)WhiteTara
(29,706 posts)I just finished reading a devastating UN report on the catastrophic future with close to 8 billion beings on the planet with 83% of wildlife gone and 50% of the wild plants. A computer model puts the total breakdown in the year 2040 and we moving faster than that. So, this was just a rant in a safe place (I thought) and should have added
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Economic decline happens when too few kids are born. Ask Japan. Computer models have shown that too.
CousinIT
(9,241 posts)She needed to stop last time.
I thought we were the party of "women's choice" and not telling women what to do with their bodies.
Mossfern
(2,493 posts)to when my mother made me finish my dinner because "There are children starving in Africa". Or maybe it was Europe or China?
I forget which, but the sentiment is the same. (1950's)
Disclosure...I have four children, yet only two grandchildren; so does that make up for that?
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)of two grandchildren, only one will (maybe) have child or children. How is that? Probably a good thing.
3 children, 2 grand children, probably no great grandchildren.
silentEcho
(424 posts)calimary
(81,238 posts)Basically, you parents thus replace yourselves, to reduce the mushrooming population. I always thought that made sense. We stopped at two, but that was only part of the reason. It was more because my body couldnt take it anymore. Those two pregnancies nearly killed me. Seriously.
silentEcho
(424 posts)Choice.
Glad you made it thru your two experiences. The joys we receive.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)dsp3000
(483 posts)you should say that to irresponsible and/or ignorant people who can't take care of themselves let alone a child.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I am not striking out at you, the basic issue you raised will play large if we move toward things like Medicare for All or Basic Guaranteed Income, some elements in society will push for deciding who "deserves" to have children and who does not. The thought is a troubling one because if society gets into deciding who can have children, what is next, deciding what the children should look like? Everytime such a state was toyed with in Hunan world history mass murder was the outcome.
I come from the camp that people should only have two biological children at the most and adopt unwanted children to fill out the family.
The Mouth
(3,150 posts)unless and until she or her family, friends start to lecture ME on how much resources and energy I use.
to each their own, as long as no one being chauffeured in limousines is telling me I'm using too much gasoline/energy/eating too much food. I chose to be child free because the planet has about 6 billion too many people on it. Other people breed, cool, but fuck 'em if they want to comment on my lifestyle, otherwise live and let live.
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)At least the kid will be lovingly raised in a liberal family with all of his needs met.
If you're going to stick your nose in other peoples' reproductive choices, start with the Duggars.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)May Jasper live a free, full life, unimpeded by bullies and tyrants.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,989 posts)jalan48
(13,864 posts)radical noodle
(8,000 posts)you would know the answer to your question. Three total.
jalan48
(13,864 posts)radical noodle
(8,000 posts)I've often done the same thing.
marble falls
(57,081 posts)pazzyanne
(6,552 posts)May Jason and all our children grow up in a better world than we are getting now!
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)for the grandparents to spoil... yeah!
PatrickforO
(14,573 posts)New life!
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Very happy for her family. A lucky little lad to be born into such a good family.
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)and yell at the baby for being racist?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I'm happy for them all.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Seems like just yesterday she was a gangly 12 yr old moving into the WH with her parents.
Mom and Dad are going to have their hands full with a 5 yr old, 3 yr old and newborn!
Skittles
(153,160 posts)you need that so two can talk about the other one
spike jones
(1,678 posts)Then we thought, we should have another in case something happened to one of them. We always referred to the third kid as the Spare Child.
mchill
(1,018 posts)When having babies these days?