Comments on: Connecting the dots: Birthrates do affect viability of religious schools http://bioethike.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fbioethike.com%2F2009%2F07%2F11%2Fconnecting-the-dots-birthrates-do-affect-viability-of-religious-schools%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Connecting+the+dots%3A+Birthrates+do+affect+viability+of+religious+schools Examining bioethics, morality, and culture from a distinctively orthodox Lutheran perspective. Site dedicated to the Holy Family. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: GKL http://bioethike.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fbioethike.com%2F2009%2F07%2F11%2Fconnecting-the-dots-birthrates-do-affect-viability-of-religious-schools%2F%23comment-1726&seed_title=Connecting+the+dots%3A+Birthrates+do+affect+viability+of+religious+schools/comment-page-1/#comment-1726 GKL Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:04:39 +0000 http://bioethike.com/?p=1078#comment-1726 Declining birth rates have undermined just about all institutions, including even "conservative" ones. For a long time, we have lived high by consuming the seed corn (i.e., by not having children and wasting the money saved by helping to finance a life style above our means), now the famine comes and our failure to invest in the next generation is beginning to show itself. But even now, most refuse to see the cause of so many of our woes. You reap what you sow. Those who sow sparingly will reap sparingly. Welcome to harvest season. Declining birth rates have undermined just about all institutions, including even "conservative" ones. For a long time, we have lived high by consuming the seed corn (i.e., by not having children and wasting the money saved by helping to finance a life style above our means), now the famine comes and our failure to invest in the next generation is beginning to show itself. But even now, most refuse to see the cause of so many of our woes. You reap what you sow. Those who sow sparingly will reap sparingly. Welcome to harvest season.

]]> By: Christian http://bioethike.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fbioethike.com%2F2009%2F07%2F11%2Fconnecting-the-dots-birthrates-do-affect-viability-of-religious-schools%2F%23comment-1717&seed_title=Connecting+the+dots%3A+Birthrates+do+affect+viability+of+religious+schools/comment-page-1/#comment-1717 Christian Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:00:35 +0000 http://bioethike.com/?p=1078#comment-1717 Why, just last Sunday I attended RC Mass at St. Henry's in Helsinki, Finland. The crowd was about 20% Finn, 5% tourist, the rest were local Africans, Asians, Indians, etc. (I suppose many worked at embassies...don't know). Virtually every non-Finn was there with at least one child, more with 2, some with 3, and all young'uns. Finland's TFR (Total Fertility Rate) is 1.83. Their labor pool is expected to go into decline starting in 2010...I guess some would call that progress. What most impressed us in Helsinki that day was the short supply of Finnish kids. Of course if a social welfare system promotes cradle-to-grave adolescence, then why bother to do the definitive adult thing and raise some children? Why, just last Sunday I attended RC Mass at St. Henry's in Helsinki, Finland. The crowd was about 20% Finn, 5% tourist, the rest were local Africans, Asians, Indians, etc. (I suppose many worked at embassies…don't know). Virtually every non-Finn was there with at least one child, more with 2, some with 3, and all young'uns. Finland's TFR (Total Fertility Rate) is 1.83. Their labor pool is expected to go into decline starting in 2010…I guess some would call that progress.

What most impressed us in Helsinki that day was the short supply of Finnish kids. Of course if a social welfare system promotes cradle-to-grave adolescence, then why bother to do the definitive adult thing and raise some children?

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