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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (90823)	12/8/2004 11:52:02 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I am not sure that we are just meddling by trying to help people in the third world get ahead. What struck me about your post is that you took something extremely excellent--offering women new options by allowing them to plan smaller families and thereby gain some control over their lives--and put it in the same category as bad (to me) things like missionary work. When women are offered birth control they do not have to accept it. No one is forcing them to have smaller families. But most women know intuitively that if all their life energy is spent taking care of too many children for them to nurture and care for, it is not good for them or their children. Women in poverty stricken nations who participate in the small loan program that America is helping with--I do not remember the name of it but Hillary Clinton was involved--are able to build some security and happiness for their families, and send their children to school. When the poverty cycle is broken everyone benefits. In countries where more people are becoming middle class, there is time to do more than survive, and things like preventing environmental degradation become more important. This wonderful upwardness is all put into place when women can control the size of their families, and it benefits everyone on the planet. Yes, our society is barbaric in many ways--I agree with you. I personally think that the spread of TV, and the ghastly American programs that are sold in syndication all over the world--cheapens and homogenizes cultures everywhere. But I don't see why we cannot help with family planning anyway.