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The Baby Bust Generation

Snake11 Wrote: Dec 19, 2012 10:40 AM

Here's what 40+ years of media and education indoctrination from Govt. run and controlled groups have brought about. For 4 decades + the media and our education system have raised the level of animals and trees above that of human beings (first the unborn human beings with the blatant and known lies of 'fetus' or 'fetal tissue', moving on to undesired, unwanted, handicapped and elderly - all of these are directly or indirectly dealt with in Obamacare as well in time) and the proof is expressed in this article! But, it's FORWARD to our 'progressive' nation and the ruin that continues to be perpetuated on it as the Church for the most part sits idly by in ignorance, apathy or compliance!

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The Baby Bust Generation

FERTILITY IN AMERICA has been declining for years. According to the Pew Research Center, the nation's birth rate hit an all-time low in 2011 – just 63 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age. It was almost twice as high – 123 births per 1,000 women – at the peak of the Baby Boom in 1957.

As babies and children disappear from a society, what takes their place? One answer, as journalist Jonathan V. Last observes in a forthcoming book, "What to Expect When No One's Expecting," is pets.

In surveys taken from the 1940s to the 1980s, fewer...

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