The Real Story Behind the Octuplets
The following editorial by Bob Walker was distributed to 800 newspapers and magazines by the Cagle Syndication Service.
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As Americans, we are obsessed with numbers, but often oblivious to their implications. We love record setting, whether it’s the eight Olympic gold medals won by Michael Phelps last year or the octuplets born last month to Nadya Suleman. We derive great vicarious pleasure from these super-human feats.
Technically, of course, Suleman’s achievement only ties the American record, as the first set of American octuplets was born about ten years ago in Texas, but she still became an overnight sensation.
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February 26th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I have been doing some research on the ZPG movement in Vermont back in 1970. The Burlington area chapter had 600 members and some of the most prominent people in the area supported it. Amazingly, even way back then, the chapter advocated for a fertility rate of 1.7. If the public had only stayed with that what a much better world situation we would be in today.