Childlessness: The Slow Suicide

From Your Tango:

The number of American women without children has risen to an all-time high of 1 in 5, a jump since the 1970s when 1 in 10 women ended their childbearing years without having a baby, according to the Pew Research Center.

About 1.9 million women aged 40-44—or 18 percent—were childless in 2008, an 80 percent increase since 1976, when just 580,000—10 percent of those in that age bracket—had never given birth, the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey shows.

Childlessness has increased across racial and ethnic groups and most education levels…

Taxes, education, health care, war, gay marriage, global warming…all completely trivial and pointless debates next to the concept of not having children. Quite simply, if we don’t have children, we don’t have a civilization – don’t have anything, at all.

I realize that in this matter I’m a bit of Mr. Hypocrite – married late, have no children of my own. But given a choice between staying silent and watching my civilization die and the risk of being charged with hypocrisy, I’ll take the risk. We really need to get a handle on this issue, or there won’t be any issues to get a handle on.

We have diligently enacted polices and pursued social ideas which have been directly inimical to family formation and child-rearing. We’ve crushed the farming, manufacturing and mining jobs which form the basis of stable, long-term employment; we’ve turned people’s heads with propaganda for a life of luxury; we’ve allowed pornography and varied smut to pervade our society; we’ve degraded any sense of sexual honor among the young; we’ve provided welfare which cuts out the need for fathers; we’ve ceased to ostracize men who don’t live up to their responsibilities and women who will have children by a series of men they never marry…its like we’ve been on a mission to commit slow, national suicide.

And, in a sense, that is what we have been doing. Work of the Enemy, this is. It is the old, anti-Christian heresies of the past, rising again in the modern age and telling us that the material is evil, life is worthless, responsibility a mindless drudgery. In ages past, we fought these ideas off – in modern times, we’ve lowered all defenses, and all the destruction has flooded in to the world.

We’re dying off. Make no mistake about it – if we don’t start having children, again, then the story of our nation is told. A new Christian civilization will eventually arise over the ruins of the first, but there is no requirement that the United States and our unique way of life endure. If we want it, then we’d better change – better change back to a society of honor, decency and strict morality.

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