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Article #465Re: 70% Said, Given A Second Chance, They Wouldn't Have Had Kids
From: Ralph Mills
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
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jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley) wrote: >I just saw on one of those news shows on night TV an interview by Jane Pauly >of Ann Landers. Two of the stats that surprised me was that Ann Landers >said when she asked her readers if they could do it all over again: > > - Only 55% said they would have married their current spouse. > > - 70% said they wouldn't have had kids if they could do it again. > >(Ann Landers said she got 50,000 responses on these questions.) > > - John There is much said on ROM about winners and losers. The losers in the race to the future are not those who die with the most toys, but those who leave the greatest number of progeny behind. They will inherit the civilization some childless folk insist they are fighting to preserve. On the other hand, with the global population explosion, even the winners may well be the losers.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdc4a,5c898871827d3f87 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdc4a,public X-Google-Thread: 110235,5c898871827d3f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid110235,public X-Google-Thread: 1082f5,5c898871827d3f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid1082f5,public X-Google-Thread: 106b5d,5c898871827d3f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid106b5d,public X-Google-Thread: fbd31,5c898871827d3f87 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbd31,public X-Google-Thread: 10a1d2,5c898871827d3f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a1d2,public From: Ralph Mills <Ralph_Mills@calstate.edu> Subject: Re: 70% Said, Given A Second Chance, They Wouldn't Have Had Kids Date: 1996/04/24 Message-ID: <4lknjd$i1q@nuke.csu.net> X-Deja-AN: 151133288 references: <DqCMDn.HwD@world.std.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: CSU x-url: news:DqCMDn.HwD@world.std.com mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: ne.singles,soc.women,soc.men,ba.singles,soc.couples,rec.org.mensa x-mailer: Mozilla 1.12(Macintosh; I; 68K)