Baby Boom

I read an article yesterday that said that 2006 was a bumper year for babies in the US with more than 4.3 million babies born in 2006.  It made me feel warm – right up until I read the reasons why the ‘experts’ decided this had happened.  Apparently ‘experts’ think more babies were born because fewer people are using contraception, have less access to abortions, have a poor education or are in poverty.  It was a tone that made it clear all these things are bad.  Apparently in the ‘experts’ ideal world no one would have a a child unless they got pregnant by accident, chose not to have an abortion, held a PhD and were filthy rich.  Experts are so dumb sometimes.  I think that maybe wanting to have another child might factor into the equation somewhere.  Maybe they did, but just called it ‘not using contraception’.

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