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Entry: Yes, It's Early Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/yes_its_early#7173 Post contents: To create a more child-friendly society through government action as Adriana seems to advocate. It is exactly government action through programs like Social Security that foster a anti-family environment. Considering that human beings react to incentives, the main incentive to have children (besides the pleasurable part of starting the process), is their purpose of taking care of you in old age as protector, provider, and care-giver. This provides the incentive to see that little Johnny learnes in school, so as to be able to better take care of you, this is why he is being taught to respect the elderly, especially his parents, since they want to be treated decent when they are older and helpless, this is why the parents look for little Johnny to get a good wife that knows how to take care of older and thus more often sick people, and this is why they not only stress the values that the church teaches, but also the tribal notion that "blood is thicker than water". All these incentives are taken away, when the security and caregiver role is taken over by an anonymous government, and the fruits of this "labor of love" of raising a child are forcibly distributed by the government through taxes to all subjects in the governments reach, even the ones that we are not related by blood to. Just witness the absolutely normal, but politically incorrect hostility to extend welfare benefits to "new and especially the ethnically different" arrivals in the country. That those, who make a living on the public trough, oppose the traditional reasons to have children is not surprising. Their wellbeing depends on destroying the independence that the traditional family structure provides to the individual. An individual without the selfsufficiency that a family can provide will have to turn to government as the guarantor of this security. And since those in government itself cannot provide it, they will indenture the able bodied ones to provide for everyone, thus socializing the fruits of labor of those, who invested in child-rearing. Sent at: 2008 10 15