The real reason for large families "glorified" on NBC (more religious nuts)
Reply to: comm-674489032@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-05-10, 11:16AM EDT
Someone recently posted:
Blessing to NBC for glorifying large families in America (Downtown)
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Reply to: ecparenting@hotmail.com
Date: 2008-05-09, 11:47AM EDT
May i say blessing to great NBC work glorifying large white families!
We need more white families with more children to win this country .
Look at them: amazing families with beatiful and blessed children.
May Lord help you!
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I saw the clip on NBC's Today Show with Matt Lauer this morning and thought it cute. No problem with married couples having large families if that's what they want. I believe, so long as you can afford to take good care of the kids you bring into the world, its nobody's business how many you have. And yes, a big happy family is a kind of blessing. It is also a "blessing" to have a happy family and choose not to have any kids if that is what you want.
I just hope in this big family, all the kids are getting all the attention from mom and dad that they deserve. Can it be a totally good thing to have a mom who is constantly pregnant and in delicate condition? Are there nannies to help out? How much can she really do for her kids if she is always "knocked up"?
Aren't women who have two or three kids overwhelmed? What about 17? A woman who has....wow,....17 with one "in the oven"! OK.
Then I read the post way above and see the racism in the post and wonder what is really going on. Apparently, for the person who wrote the post, a large family is a blessing so long as it is a white family. This person also thinks that a higher white birth rate is needed to "win this country". What does that mean?
The family on the TV show said nothing about wanting exclusively a white family for white family sake but they also were not asked about adopting. A big family is what they wanted, more and more kids. There is probably more to the story.
Now I'm wondering if there is a kind of religious and racist bent to the whole thing. The family on TV home schools their kids so I wonder if they are going out of their way to limit exposing their children to the full scope of American History. You know what I mean, none of that "multi-cultural" stuff which is a euphamism for civil rights history regarding native Americans, African Americans or Asian and Latino Americans or the history of people other than whites.
Hmmmmmm, I wonder exactly what is really going on. What will this apparently deeply Christian family do if one or two of the kids happen to be gay? What if one of the kids grow up falls in love and wants to marry outside their race?
Only then will we see exactly what kind of family this is. For now, its cute and the family looks like a good one in a Big Love kind of way so maybe we should all just mind our own business.
One note. The polygamist drama down in Texas found that many of the teen-age and or minor children were pregnant or recently gave birth. That some of the children had multiple bone fractures indicating possible abuse. Are these kids being tortured or punished for not wanting to go along with the culture of the compound? We keep finding more religious nuts hiding behind so called nice religious family facades.
Lots to think about.
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