Babies in a suitcase

I didn't get married until I was 36 and to be suddenly treated like a second-class citizen REALLY got up my nose - especially as I was the main bread-winner. I thought all that went out with the ark, but I was proved wrong. :rolleyes: :disgust2:

It's remarkably difficult to change peoples attitudes... especially when their prejudices are backed up by religion... The problem as I see it is that most religions are paternalistic and don't see men and women as equals.
 
I didn't get married until I was 36 and to be suddenly treated like a second-class citizen REALLY got up my nose - especially as I was the main bread-winner. I thought all that went out with the ark, but I was proved wrong.
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My wife and I married at 36 as well (her second, my first) and she has the same complaint you do. whenever I hear someone talk about how far we've come it always reminds me how far we have yet to go.
 
Due to the nature of our species & the inherent differences between sexes, we will never be equal. On the same playing field with the same opportunities, yes. Very few would be happy with a truly equal society. Men giving birth & women peeing while standing up & not getting thier shoes wet sounds like a bad idea. There has to be seperation & differences to make us interesting.
 
I believe that the common practice in China is that you get a certificate to bear a child..if you have one already and get pregnant, you HAVE to abort...if you take the child to full-term, the baby in injected in formaldehyde through the foramen magnun and into the brain before the first breath is taken. The child dies instantly and is taken away for cremation and disposal.

It's an inhuman action, but an action to help prevent over-population in a tightly packed place. I don't like it at all.

BTW...the gender of the 2nd child is NOT taken into the equation. The gender part comes from after the gender of the first child is determined.

Remember: In China...3rd trimester abortions are legal and used often in the case of a female foetus being the first (and thus only) to be born.
 
unclehobart said:
...and the world slips another notch on the yardstick of barbarism.
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it's horrible that things like these happen.
but the chinese have been known to throw their baby daughters into the river. they're only allowed to have one child, and most of them want a son.
at the expense of the girls.


friends of mine adopted two baby girls in china, saving them from being thrown into the river. quite some other kids over there weren't so lucky.

it's hard to imagine that things like that still happen. same thing with smuggling baby's.
 
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