The Selfishness of the Intentionally Childless

Written By: Tom Trinko  |  Posted: Monday, September 27th, 2010

While liberals are constantly talking about government "investments, " they neglect and even denigrate the single biggest investment of the American people: our children. According to the government, it takes roughly $222, 000 to raise a child to age 17, and if you include college costs, this number can go up a lot. Given that the population of the United States is roughly 300, 000, 000, that means that Americans with children will spend on the order of $66 trillion to raise the next generation of Americans. That makes even Obama's porkulus project look small. Yet liberals constantly disparage large families, i.e. those with more than two children, and give no credit to the hardworking families who make their children their number-one priority. You'd think that liberals would like all the economic activity that parents engage in to raise their children.

Of course, in general, liberals tend to view children more as a problem than a blessing. Sure, they love their own kids, but they worry about the environmental impact of those "other" kids on global warming and global poverty. That's why the first type of aid liberals send overseas is funding for birth control and abortion. Instead of liberty, capitalism, and economic growth, liberals seem to think that the way to solve the third world's problems is through reducing the number of brown babies born. That's why they're so fond of China's one-baby policy even though it results in forced abortions - no choice there - and the selective slaughter of female babies.

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