On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 1:25:52 PM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:

> The unfortunate thing about it is that those of us who have demonstrated
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> the ability to take care of ourselves have come to realize that there is
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> population growth problem have taken steps to deal with it. Most people
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> in the developed world have stopped having large families, limiting
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> themselves to 1-2 children. Meanwhile, those in the poorest and most
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> densely populated countries are still having large families.you have to
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> wonder when you see coverage of famine relief project and see people
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> coming in with 12 or more half starved kids. We constantly see scenes of
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> huge families of scrawny, underfed kids. If they can't feed the kids
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> they have they should not have more.


Unfortunately most of those are uneducated and tied to either a religion or belief system that prevents any usage of contracepton.....or they have no idea about contracepton. In many areas a lot of children means more hands to do the work.