On Saturday 05 April 2008 02:24:17 pm Hal Vaughan wrote: > I truly hope you're being facetious because the alternative would be to > wonder if you've ever talked to any parents. Of course I know parents, and the ones who don't have anything resembling that kind of money lined up pretty much have hell to pay for it. It's an unenviable position that I plain can't understand why anybody would put themselves in to start with, much less consider normal. > By your standard, less than 2% of the entire world's population should > ever consider parenthood, and those would be the richest 2% on the > planet. Yes, that's correct. There's not really much of any reason for humans to keep reproducing at the rate we are. We're gaining a billion people every 10-15 years right now, it's not like we need more numbers. > Unless you're at least a multi-millionaire (considering numbers these > days, I'd say worth $3-5 million), you've just qualified yourself as an > unfit Father. Actually, my abilities as a potential father aren't the issue and will never be the issue. I'm childfree. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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