Thursday, July 12, 2007

in all seriousness

why do extremely poor african people still have children?

take this as a racist comment, whatever you want... i just don't understand it. why, when these people know that they don't have food, medicine, or any proper way to care for their children, do they keep having kids? I know that they are smart people, i know that they are perfectly able to reason this out, so why do they have children knowing full well that they will not be able to have a future? I don't know the numbers, and i don't want to make any up, but i know that there has to be a huge number of African children who starve to death every day because of all of the famine that has been going on there. If anybody has any insight (or... if anybody even reads this at all) let me know. I'm honestly curious and not just trying to say "well look how much they suck, they have kids even though they're starving themselves." i really do want to know why. it could be a huge cultural chasm that i can't cross until i understand more about what goes on over there. my sister has been to Africa... maybe she knows.

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