Lisa Andresen wrote:
The thread title was sarcasm thank you very much.

So that means that you think that Americans should have fewer kids?

Lisa Andresen wrote:
Everyone I know is pregnant or just had a kid.

ArtisticPhotography wrote:
Your husband is pregnant?

  For the win!

Lisa Andresen wrote:
The thread title was sarcasm thank you very much.

ArtisticPhotography wrote:
So that means that you think that Americans should have fewer kids?

  Also for the win!!

You are on a roll, dude!

Gianantonio wrote:

WHAT!!!  Oh, my dog is SO busted.  No more campus life for him!

Thanks for the tip! 

You might have to pay for college for a Jack Russel. They are pretty smart dogs.

Shon D.- Homme wrote:

I think that is ridiculous.
- Perhaps if more people were financially stable, more children would be born.
- Perhaps if raising children weren't so expensive, more children would be born.
- Perhaps if childcare were affordable, more children would be born.
- Perhaps if college tuition weren't skyrocketing, more children would be born.
- Perhaps if the workplace were accommodating to new parents, more children would be born.

I could go on and on and on, but instead I'll just ask this:

What about all the children who are already HERE that need to be cared for? The adoption/foster care system is in SHAMBLES.

PREACH.

Lisa Andresen wrote:

Seriously the name of the thread is not how I feel about the topic. In the OP I clearly explain that I never knew until reading this that the birth rate was even low. I think Americans have plenty of babies. The thread title was sarcasm thank you very much.

Troll much?

ArtisticPhotography wrote:
You might have to pay for college for a Jack Russel. They are pretty smart dogs.

Well, Jack Russell is one of the kickers for the University of Wisconsin in Madison Big Ten football team (Go Badgers!  Big10 Champs for 3 straight years!!).  So he's at least earning his keep!

But I wonder if peoples' pets had more babies if that would stimulate the economy in the same way having human babies (from human mothers--not from dogs) is supposed to?