Tam

I don't know that financial status should ever be measured as to whether you can care for or not care for a baby, I don't think I really agree with that idea at all. I know a lot of higher incomes that can't care for a child any better than someone who is financially unstable and those are the ones I worry about, the ones that HAVE money and their kids still grow up to be a complete and utter mess.

I do think, however, that mental capacity should be a measure of whether one should be put on mandatory birth control though. I know of one girl right now, her parents are both pretty well off but that girl can't even boil water or take care of herself on ANY level.... where a lower income class will tend to teach their kids SOME skill levels to help their kids survive in the world. My oldest son's ex-girlfriend will be 19 in one month, she is in college and that kid can't even boil water, she can't function at all on her own.... not even for a minute. Her parents put careers and church ahead of her all of her life. She has to label her food in her own home so her parents don't eat her food and if her name isn't on it, she isn't allowed to eat it. She is now living on her own and she is into so many drugs and drinking that she doesn't even know she can't boil water or feed herself because she stays so zoned out she doesn't know where she's at half the time. And this is from an upper middle income class home. She once called her dad an asshole and they put her in "Jesus Jail" for three days..... this consisted of being put in the basement for 24 hours at a time and no food or anything, and told to pray for forgiveness for disrespecting her father... once she would confess that she has repented, she was only then allowed out of Jesus Jail. She was 7 at this time.

Now.... on the flip side of this. We haven't ever been on welfare in my house, thank god, but have been damn close to it a few times, and there have been times where we weren't exactly the epitome of what you would consider financially stable.. and we DID make financial sacrifices to be able to raise our kids ourselves and not in some daycare or other places where they picked up god knows what. We raised them ourselves, regardless of financial status on our end. they never one time went to bed without being fully fed and knowing that regardless of anything, they were loved and appreciated for the PEOPLE they were and are. But the reasons for our financial status were our own making to make sure our kids had what they needed to survive in this world... and none of that consisted of having money!

Now I know I am not the greatest mom in the world, god knows I have made my mistakes and will again, and do probably on a daily basis... but I have the MENTAL capacity to know what is right for my kids. You see here, a version of both financial upper class and not so even lower class at times. And I can say this..... IF, and I don't agree that mandatory birth control should ever be used... but I am saying IF they ever wanted to put something like that in place, I'd MUCH rather they use mental capacity as a requirement way above financial status.

One can be poor and still give kids the things they NEED to survive in the world.... but what is needed is the MENTAL capacity to raise them not to be twisted and fucked up.

To answer your question, someone having that many kids JUSt to have a set of twins, has some MENTAL issues that need to be looked into. ;)

That's just my 2 cents on this.

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