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Jon and Kate Plus 8 is bad enough. Now TLC is premiering Table for 12. Two sets of twins, the ad for Table for 12 says. Two sets of twins, and then sixtuplets. I would venture to guess that most people with only one set of twins would consider that to be plenty challenging. Two sets? That's pushing it, but it could happen. But to reproduce at all after popping out four kids is nothing but selfish and irresponsible. Stop, stop, stop putting these people on display! Putting people like this on television implies that it is in some way acceptable that they have bred like rabbits. It isn't.

Current Mood: annoyed by the uber-breeders

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monkeybard

I suspect the current multiple parents need the money a reality TV show brings in. If it means the children are better taken care of I don't mind it.

There is that, but if they can't afford the kids without the income from a TV show (which they can't have counted on before the fact), then they shouldn't be having them in the first place, IMO. Religion be damned (if you'll forgive the phrasing). This sort of rampant breeding is inexcusably irresponsible.

This is where I think China really has it right. Legal restrictions on the number of births is A Good Thing.

Let's just hope the kids grow up to want space of their own.

One can only hope. Perhaps they'll choose to rebel by not reproducing.

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monkeybard

Good long winded reply. :)

Seems like eugenics is just a snappy euphemism for "crimes against humanity".

Overpopulation is a complex problem. I remember reading Elspeth Huxley's third autobiography in which she said that western medical care was both a blessing and a curse in Africa--where she grew up. (This was around the 1950s maybe? It's been too long since I read it to remember.) It meant fewer infant deaths, which was good, but it didn't slow down the rate at which the people reproduced, which was bad because it caused a fast and unsupportable growth in population. It was intervention with corresponding education to explain that "you don't need to make so many children since the majority are now surviving". Instead, the people were still stuck in the mindset of "reproduce because who knows how many will make it."