how many kids are u planning to have?

[VV o n g B a]

i think the only reason i'd want A and i emphasize A kid is to save a marriage. which will prolly collapse anyways by the time the kid is 10 and the ensuing divorce and custody battle will end up scarring him/her for life. yeah.

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By Michael Meyer
Newsweek International

Sept. 27 issue - Everyone knows there are too many people in the world. Whether we live in Lahore or Los Angeles, Shanghai or So Paulo, our lives are daily proof. We endure traffic gridlock, urban sprawl and environmental depredation. The evening news brings variations on Ramallah or Darfur—images of Third World famine, poverty, pestilence, war, global competition for jobs and increasingly scarce natural resources.

Just last week the United Nations warned that many of the world's cities are becoming hopelessly overcrowded. Lagos alone will grow from 6.5 million people in 1995 to 16 million by 2015, a miasma of slums and decay where a fifth of all children will die before they are 5. At a conference in London, the U.N. Population Fund weighed in with a similarly bleak report: unless something dramatically changes, the world's 50 poorest countries will triple in size by 2050, to 1.7 billion people.

Yet this is not the full story. To the contrary, in fact. Across the globe, people are having fewer and fewer children. Fertility rates have dropped by half since 1972, from six children per woman to 2.9. And demographers say they're still falling, faster than ever. The world's population will continue to grow—from today's 6.4 billion to around 9 billion in 2050. But after that, it will go sharply into decline. Indeed, a phenomenon that we're destined to learn much more about—depopulation—has already begun in a number of countries. Welcome to the New Demography. It will change everything about our world, from the absolute size and power of nations to global economic growth to the quality of our lives.
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[missmeow]

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[younggiftedandblack]

Honestly if I could afford it I would want about 10. YGB loves the kids

[yoMAMA]

two, one of each gender....

:p

[Mr.Lum]

1 boy.

[rice cracker]

Three. Two boys and a girl. Preferably the girl will be the youngest. I think it's best to have the baby of the family be a girl. She'll be my little princess, and she'll have two big brothers to protect her.

[moJo]

probably two. either two girls, or one boy and one girl. i'd prefer the girl to be older, i think. to keep the boy in check.

[rice cracker]

Originally Posted by moJo

probably two. either two girls, or one boy and one girl. i'd prefer the girl to be older, i think. to keep the boy in check.

Get pregnant when I do. Then when our kids grow up they can date. :D

[moser]

1 boy, 1 girl. Prefer the boy to be older, though don't have a rational reason for the preference.

(That is, if I don't become the crazy old woman with the 10,001 cats)

[moJo]

Originally Posted by rice cracker

Get pregnant when I do. Then when our kids grow up they can date. :D

sure thing, just let me know when. (make sure you let radford know too. )


it ain't happenin for a long time over here.

[Faithless]

Depopulation or not depopulation?

Rising Growth Still an Issue, Says UNFPA

Thalif Deen

The U.N. Population Fund is dispelling a widespread notion -- prevalent mostly in Western countries -- that population growth has ceased to be a serious socio-economic problem primarily because of declining numbers.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 (IPS) - The U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) is dispelling a widespread notion -- prevalent mostly in Western countries -- that population growth has ceased to be a serious socio-economic problem primarily because of declining numbers.

But this is not true, says UNFPA, which insists that ”population growth is still an issue”.

”Global population, now 6.4 billion, is still growing rapidly -- currently by 76 million persons per year,” according to the UNFPA's annual 'State of the World Population, 2004,' released Wednesday.

By 2050, the United Nations projects the world will add some 2.5 billion people, an amount equal to the world's total population in 1950.

”It is tragically becoming so-called conventional wisdom to declare that there is no longer a world population crisis,” says Werner Fornos, president of the Washington-based Population Institute.

”This is a load of baloney sliced thick by elitist think tank denizens whose global vision is limited to their own backyards,” Fornos told IPS. ”We have been mesmerised by the positive news that population growth is declining even in some of the poorest parts of the world.”

Fornos admits that there have been widespread population declines in the industrialised world. This phenomenon is a matter that requires serious policy decisions for those countries involved, related to a range of issues involving aging populations, social security, pensions and the retention of a viable, able-bodied workforce.

”But it is a preposterous pipe dream to believe that population reduction is the overriding demographic dilemma of our age,” said Fornos, winner of the 2003 U.N. population award.
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[Cipherous]

1 or none, the world is too over populated anyhow

[rice cracker]

Originally Posted by moJo

sure thing, just let me know when. (make sure you let radford know too. )


it ain't happenin for a long time over here.

Lol, let's synchronize our biological clocks. And don't worry, it ain't happening for a while here, either.

[Tao]

1 boy and 1 girl in that order

[NotAsian]

Desired: 2 or 3.
Likely: 0.
Theoretically optimal: as many as possible.