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(57,353 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,937 posts)And I keep laughing. We don't have kids (47 and 51) so that train has left the station but . . .
Not everyone gets it!
jimfields33
(16,015 posts)Can you help?
ok_cpu
(2,056 posts)ain't making any new babies.
jimfields33
(16,015 posts)I think you need kids to get it. I totally understand now.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)but I do genealogy, and the French-Canadian farmers that I'm descended from had maybe twenty kids in a one or two room farmhouse...
ok_cpu
(2,056 posts)you kids stay inside and read."
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)but the births in September belie that. We're talking Quebec in the mid-winter here!
ok_cpu
(2,056 posts)That's actually pretty interesting. Amazing to be able to raise a family that large in some possibly harsh conditions.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)if a couple had a 20th child, the government would pay for schooling for that child. That child would grow up to have a profession, and that would be helpful to the parents when they hit old age.
I've learned a lot through genealogy!
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)Because people who already have kids wont have time or the will to make another because theyre already losing their minds from being stuck inside the house with the ones they have.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)is likely not thinking about having more.
JustAnotherGen
(31,937 posts)Will be extra careful - a lot of them are in hell with cooped up children.
People who don't have that birth control reminder? Oh yeah - lots of babies in early next year!
brush
(53,924 posts)jimfields33
(16,015 posts)Great timing. Yieks.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)I was reading an article that indicates that pregnant women are more susceptible to complications and a higher mortality rate from contracting the virus.
They don't know specifically why yet, but it is statistically evident and can be looked up for those who are concerned about getting pregnant right now.
It might be best to put that off for several reasons, methinks. This kind of crisis indicates more caution.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)35 years since ours were underfoot. Those poor things are in for it now, and also our poor grandchildren.
I regret many costs to them, this is only the beginning of those, but not that it will create a very different outlook from before.
Too many people are far, far too complacently stupid and need to find out for themselves what happens when they fecklessly kick over their own bucket and no one comes to make it all well for them. Only some will take the right lessons, of course, but it's always been that way.