Boys and Girls in Space

each generation is different that others. if a group in one decided
they dont want children, the generation that follows will be from the
ones that do. a lot of the reason many ppl dont want children is that
with the current situation it really does not make since havning a
lot of children. with a change of situation brought on by open
expansion, having children would be easier and would increase the
lifestyle instead of decreasing it.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "janet_baker76"
wrote:
>
> Well, list, I enjoyed the Satellite Refueling and Menstruation
thread.
> It took some interesting turns from the initial statement that a
need
> for population growth would be one consequence of the first space
> colony, and the thread explored what it would take to get women to
> want to have babies again, as women go further down the road to
> renouncing their femininity.
>
> But some of the later posts revealed that many men on this list
want
> no part of fatherhood, either. They were most emphatic. So we got a
> bunch of boys and girls who would rather not--reproduce,
menstruate,
> change a diaper, wipe a snotty little nose, pay for college, grow
old
> together.
>
> The family is a tough little package, and those cultures which
foster
> the family over the commune have proved to be resilient. Vernor
Vinge
> in Darkness of the Deep proposed that space would be conquored by
> family dynasties operating in an economic system of young,
expanding
> capitalism where the concept of "return business" is the unifying
> secular morality, and like enough to the golden rule to work just
> fine. (Free trade among equals is cheaper than enslavement.)
>
> Let's say Vinge and others are right and the family is the unit
that
> will carry humankind to the stars. I wonder what it will take to
get
> boys and girls together again in the baby-making business. I wonder
if
> we're too far down the road already. If so, you can forget the
space
> colony. All the tech talk is just jerking off, because neither the
> government nor business will be able to take over reproduction from
> living, breathing men and women, in spite of of those test tube
uterus