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melanie mae
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Poverty - how not to create
April 23, 2003 - 01:08 AM
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don't breed
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April 23, 2003 - 02:27 AM
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Pebble,
That is so cruel of you. What if you were not born doe s it mean your parents could be richer if they were poor from the beggining? I know you really don't understand the noun poverty and all you follow are the statistic from the world bank.
I have experienced poverty, seen what it does to all who I love and breeding is the least cause of it.Believe me some natural catastrophies like famine play a big role towards creating poverty, ignorance where by we forget to think about the future is another contributer.
It doesn't matter the number of children you bear as long as you can manage them, poverty cannot come in especially in the Sub Saharan region. I have to agree that our traditions support the bearing of many children but only those who can manage them do it. Some are poor yet they have only one kid.
Just reconsider you point.
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April 23, 2003 - 03:11 AM
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yeah you are right, i just put my view in without thinking it through, and it wasn't meant to offend.
it was directed at the men out there that complain about poverty and kids and lack of work yet they continue to go without wearing condoms at their own selfishness having babies without taking care of them.
letting the mothers struggle on their own, or asking them to abort.
it was not directed to the people of africa.
ok?
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breeding?
July 3, 2003 - 03:24 AM
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I was going through the quiz in the understanding poverty when i was linked to the discussion forum. I thought why not read what other people think about poverty coz sometimes I would be living in my own world. Then Pebbles comment or solution to poverty was somewhat eye catching.
'not breeding'...I thought hmmm.."I wonder if Pebbles could say that to the poor man, how has nothing else to cherish or protect, except the love he has for his family". In Zimbabwe, almost 80% live under the poverty line...which official would then term them poor. If there where to stop 'breeding' as you put it, would that help anything? For some, the family is the most valuable thing they can ever have, and to have a family would make them the richest man/woman there is.
last thing...I know in most cultures, people actually have children to eradicate poverty in the up coming generations. What the theory goes like this (u can be the judge of it...I know my grandfather to some extent used this method) invest all they have on the eldest in the family. Then the child will...help support the other children once they are grown.
Most of the times its not anyone fault to be poor, interesting article i read http://www.takingitglobal.org/express/article.html?cid=1486 addresses how child poverty, AIDS and situations lead to some people becoming poor.
mE
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July 12, 2003 - 04:28 AM
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I am very sorry to hear about what happened to yuo and your family and your story made me change my mind on the way i think thanks alot!
-Brandon Bell
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what is poverty?
July 26, 2003 - 06:19 AM
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It was good to read your views on how to stop poverty but i just wanted those that were in poverty to know that poverty is not something that can be measured or even explained. I do not think there is such a thing as poverty and it is only what others think of it that makes it what it is.
I was raised in Fiji, an island in the south pacific and in standards that would be called poverty to the western world. Yet those where the best days of my lives. Living in that circumstance I was oblivious to what others saw as poverty in our family for there was love, good times and lives to be lived.
I now live in the states in what would be called a higher lifestyle, but I can only dream of the hapiness i once had. I did't cheerish it then... and I hope where ever you are, you can cheerish your lives for what it is and live it regardless of the worlds pity.
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i am so sorry
October 9, 2004 - 08:10 AM
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please accept my apologies to my comments about "breeding."
i didn't mean for it to come out that way.
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Re: Poverty - how not to create
October 10, 2004 - 06:44 AM
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Thats not too responsible to have 10+ kids. Take this into consideration:
- Who will feed those?
- Who will pay for the costs?
- Where they will find jobs?
- Earth has limitation how many people can support.
- Crowded places increase risks of conflicts.
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Re: Poverty - how not to create
November 16, 2004 - 10:38 AM
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Poverty is one of the most challenging issues governments are facing this time. For me, the primary reason for poverty is usually unemployment. Efforts to give people nice and stable job will surely lessen poverty. Another is over population, governments should come now to programs that will discuss overpopulation. Right now, it is estimated to have 6 billion people worldwide and im just wondering if all these people meet its basic needs. Its not yet too late... each one of us has its role to contribute...we should act now if we want our children to see a bright future.
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Adoption!
November 17, 2004 - 03:34 AM
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I have decided not to breed. Why breed, when I can adopt? I have all the love in the world to share with the kids that need my love...and of course my money too! ^^
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November 17, 2004 - 11:58 AM
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hi piggy,
you raised a good point! a friend of mine was twenty when he found out he was a father. the girl he impregnated was a one night stand, the sort of person he decided he didn't want a relationship with. they were both poor and drifters.
the baby was born, it was a little boy named Sira. my friend spent the first week with his child but couldn't handle the interrelationships between the baby's mother and aunt. the aunt to the baby was someone he had no respect for...anyway he got up and left and six months later signed adoption papers over to the baby's aunt and uncle. so both the mother and father disowned the child, luckily an aunt took over custody.
the aunt (sarah) is married to someone in the military and now sira is in Japan, a happy little soccer player, who has two parents who have raised him and cared for him.
thanks for bringing up the point!
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Mushroom Adoption
November 18, 2004 - 12:55 PM
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Thanks Pebbles for supporting adoption. I appreciate people who go for adoption. However, most of the time, people will breed because they want to pass down their heritages to their own blood or because of the name of the family etc...Or, because of accidental sex.
Nonetheless, I support adoption because those who usually are up for adoptions need parents. And, plus, for a person who has a good living will need good companionship too,...Some will say that adopted kids will give many many problems. It is a yes and a no. Dont your own kids give you problems too??
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melanie mae
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November 19, 2004 - 11:50 AM
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piggy,
interesting name. here we call pigs, "cops." I do not have a bunch of kids, just one. and yes it was an accidental pregnancy, but i am not complaining...he is a great kid i am happy to be mother to.
personally though i am not a very wealthy person and had a hard enough time taking care of myself, and am putting myself through school. no child should have to be born to unwanting parents who have no money to feed them. i am a wanting parent, and we will survive even though there is not alot of money. but i know this... i am not having more, he will be the only child.
my comment about breeding was aimed at the MEN who DON'T WANT TO WEAR CONDOMS BUT YET DON'T WANT TO BE FATHERS to the children they bring into the world.
poverty strikes the best of people, with no kids or with many kids, and can be overcome. i think i did my best to explain my point of view. *have a nice day, pig*
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Re: Poverty - how not to create
November 27, 2004 - 05:00 AM
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Simple:
- Just making a child is 10 % of fatherhood / motherhood. REST OF 90 % YOU WILL DO BY GOOD PARENTING TILL CHILD'S 18th B'DAY ! (and often after that as well)
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yeah, yeah, yeah
November 29, 2004 - 11:49 AM
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ave futuria~
you are right...any sperm can connect with any egg and produce a baby. it doesn't take too much to figure that out. what i was talking about was poverty, and how MEN are mostly behind it, whether its a slacker father, or a slacker government backed by men. all around its the fault of agencies and people.
"The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer"
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