The contempt shown to parents of large families

[The ClayTaurus]

Right... go READ what I said dude.. If ya'll want to say I'm showing comtempt to smaller families - I guess that's your misguided right to say that.. but that is - not in context with my message..

Ah, so, it's not that you have contempt for small families, just that you think most of them are selfish and their children end up spoiled rotten brats that ruin society?

[Said1]

You just repeated the same thing.

You have a split personality problem where one part of you doesn't know what the other part is doing?

And just a hint, but you have no juice, so when you neg me nothing happens other than you look like you're stamping your feet.

Same as when he deletes posts.


Duh. Where. Did. They. Go.

[-Cp]

Ah, so, it's not that you have contempt for small families, just that you think most of them are selfish

Correct...

and their children end up spoiled rotten brats that ruin society?

and that (generally speaking) their children are spoild rotten and grow up with an entitlement mentality...

There are, of course, exceptions to this rule like my best friend who lives next door to me..

[Gaffer]

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and that (generally speaking) their children are spoild rotten and grow up with an entitlement mentality...

There are, of course, exceptions to this rule like my best friend who lives next door to me..

It couldn't posibly be that the spoiled rotten ones are the exception.

[The ClayTaurus]

Correct...



and that (generally speaking) their children are spoild rotten and grow up with an entitlement mentality...

There are, of course, exceptions to this rule like my best friend who lives next door to me..

So how is that not contemptuous again?

[Gunny]

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and that (generally speaking) their children are spoild rotten and grow up with an entitlement mentality...

There are, of course, exceptions to this rule like my best friend who lives next door to me..

I had two kids. One is an E-2 in the Army, the other is a senior in high school. Neither are spoiled by any means. Both are models of self-sufficiency.

My ex-wife and I were both active duty Marines. The decision to cap the family at two kids was not based on selfishness at all. It was based on the what was best for the family overall.

My ex was admin, but I was deployed all the time. MY youngest learned to walk and talk while I was gone.

I didn't consider it fair to my children that we should have so little time to spend with them, and it certainly would have been less fair to have more children to spend even less time with.

When the marriage came to an end and my oldest made the decision to come with me, it got even "better." I spent 4 of my last 5 years in the Corps, to include 2 deployments, as a single parent.

It isn't selfish when considering whether or not to have a child how much time and attention one can give, and how other commitments may conflict no matter how good your intentions.

[Mr. P]

I wasn't gonna go there, but it's so obvious ain't it...

Very much so.