Esmeralda
Diamond Member
Perhaps she heard about from someone else who was doing it, who had heard from someone else who was doing it, who had heard from someone else who was doing it.
That's how cultural decay works.
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Would seem to me that she learned this from her momma, who not doubt learned from hers.
Yeah, actually that's the scary part to me. With each succeeding generation, it becomes more and more ingrained in our culture, causing even more damage to those who have grown up with it. It's difficult to expect people to depend on themselves when they just don't know what that means. Literally.
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It is a matter of education. A highly literate, well educated nation usually has zero population growth or near zero population growth. The more educated people are, the more likely they are to chose to limit the size of their families, to have better incomes, to have higher expectations for their children as far as education and careers, etc. What really needs reform is the quality of education in America. Though reforming the welfare system may be useful, it is not the essential problem; you'd only be putting a band-aid on the situation rather than curing it.