Are people really this stupid?

[Doomer]

Just read this in a "scientific" article on the net :

QUOTE -- Children in poor countries are born because their parents need help in the fields and someone to care for them in their old age -- END QUOTE.

Now I will admit that children do tend to serve both purposes in the third world, claiming these as reasons for them being born strikes me as absurdly stupid.

OK, I assume that anyone capable of authoring a coherent article is old enough to know about the birds and bees......... maybe not.

 

[Locutus of Board]

Yes.

 

[Shudder]

So if I have a bunch of dishes piling up and I don't feel like doing them will a little child manifest itself in my kitchen? That would rock.

 

[Russ]

Doomer,

The author actually knows a hell of a lot more than, apparently, you do. He was not providing a biological explanation, but a cultural one. It was the same in the early days of our own country.

Russ, NCNE

 

[reitz]

Thank you Russ, I was about to say the same thing.

 

[DanC]

What Russ said...


Get a clue.

 

[piku]

Yes they do have kids specifically for the money they get when they work.

Yes this has already been established and this post is not needed.

 

[Genius]

Good then. I'm going to start myself a child farm and sell them as slaves...

 

[piku]

<< Good then. I'm going to start myself a child farm and sell them as slaves... >>



Save yourself the trouble - I'll send you $.20 a day the kid would make.

 

[BA]

The answer to that question is always yes.

 

[Genius]

This world is just too damn messed up.