Yes, Jeremy, I have been reading up on your earlier doings.
What can one say but that the culture of the land has been changed so much that the past was indeed a different country. What one often sees nowadays is that children command their parents rather than the other way around.
My own parents were monumentally unpleasant and over bearing people who insisted I do everything according to their wishes and on their time schedule. Both my maternal and paternal grandparents had much the same attitude as well. However, as my parents were good, industrious providers and always had my meals ready on time, I was patient with them. Had they been poor and lazy I might have left them and run away to join the Army.
Something I also notice is that one of the liabilities of having children in the current culture is that it seems to make all sorts of tiresome busybodies imagine that they have the right to intervene in your private affairs and tell you how to raise your children. The most vociferous of these busybodies typically will have no children of their own. Go figure it?
Naturally hassles like this have come to make many in our millennial generation believe that children are naught but a burden rather than a blessing, so they aren't having any. It takes a village to screw up a child's mind.
Jeremy, welcome back. I have been wondering which presidential hopeful you were advising during your absence from this mental space. What bothers me about the current trend I see in the raising of children is that it is being given over to institutions. I do not regard what welfare mammas do with their teaming spawn as attaining the level of child rearing.
It's not that children are a burden, just that they are especially difficult to raise when no one else is having them but Mexicans and Moslems. Baby Boomers are also not interested in grand-parenting, so you have no temporary relief from your kids that you would've had in yesteryear. You can pay for babysitting if you can find a good one. SAHMs are lonely as few other women stay home.
I could go on and on about this.
“But for my view, I believe that there should be no more babies.” – Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, 1947 - youtube.com/watch?v=ChCjgYGTL4Y
In a 1947 interview that surfaced via the British Pathe, Sanger described her desire for women in the developed world to cease completely from reproduction. When asked by the reporter whether this would be impractical to ask women who desire children, but would no longer be able to conceive in 10 years, Sanger said, “I should think instead of being impractical, it is really very practical and intelligent and humane.”
Good point PR. You’re absolutely right. All sorts of political groups, societal conditions and human foibles are working in seeming concert to discourage young white Americans from having children. For example it has been well known for decades that when the economy is bad and well-paying jobs are hard to find, as it is now, people tend to put off having children, sometimes for good and all. For the past 100 years Leftist Progressives like Margret Sanger have been doing their level best to convince women in the western world that they should not have babies. The message only seems to have taken hold among American and European whites and the Japanese a well. One of the problems that besets American mille millennials is that they are as susceptible to peer pressure as previous generations, no more and no less. The difference is that 60 years ago the peer pressure among whites was to be fruitful and multiply and also to be a stern disciplinarian to your children. Even to the point of being harsh and denying your children many things. For instance, in the days of my youth many white folks refused to buy birthday and Christmas presents for children, believing such indulgences would do nothing but spoil them, creating unrealistic expectations of entitlement in them. Regardless, being the greedy and rapacious little monster that I was I had absolutely no use for such people. However as children were to be seen and not heard in those days I kept my opinion to myself, lest I catch a rebuke for being too brutally frank (hey, just keeping it real Mom). Now the peer pressure on millennials is the polar opposite of what it was on the World War II generation: i.e. to renounce or delay children bearing and to be excessively lenient and indulgent with those few special snowflakes to which they do choose to give birth. It seems like much of the peer pressure placed on millennials is to be a gullible dumbass. This sometimes makes us old-timers look at white millennials like they are a separate species of some sort, even though we understand intellectually that they are mainly from the same gene pool as previous white generations and thus logically have most of the same strengths and weaknesses of character as their ancestors. Well there is a silver lining to all this. The good thing about both birth control and Feminism is that they are causing non-maternal white women to remove themselves from the gene pool. This means that the birth rate among American whites WILL go up at some point. Particularly when societal conditions become ripe for such a resurgence. Then the peer pressure will swing back to encouraging whites to be fruitful and multiply once again.