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1. It seems it would be painful to get the marrow removed. Of course with the population problem getting out of control in many countries, I really would hope that they would just stick with letting people adopt. I know that seems kind of cold, but seriously we really need to think of how many children in the world who are orphanes and if they start doing this how many would stay that way. Imo I think we need to focus on trying to get homes for all the kids who get put in the system because of unwanted pregnancies. I love kids and wouldn't mind adoption, but it is out of dh and my price range. We simply can't afford to go that route. It is so expensive now a days for the people who are in the lower to mid wage brackets to even try to consider it would take years of saving and once they got the money up there is no guarantee that they will get a child because of how the system works. That in its self is really sad. I know that it will be expensive for this kind of treatment but what kind of fertility treatment isn't.      by shan
   
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   with the population problem getting out of control in many countries

   Actually the population problem in most countries is that they aren't having [i]enough[i] kids to sustain the population. The U.S. has the highest birth rate except for the Muslim countries and South America and it is only 2.3 babies per woman--which when you count early deaths is barely enough to sustain the populations. Russia's is something like 1.2 kids per woman or less and most European countries are somewhere in-between. Even in South America the birth rate has gone down steadily and is now something like 3.7
   as opposed to 4.67 in 2003.
   
   Everyone is relying on immigration to sustain their population but at the current rates, there will be no one left to immigrate anywhere except for the Middle East.
   
   And the problem in many countries is that all the wrong people are having the children. Shan pointed out that there are a lot of unwanted pregnancies. It's the poor and uneducated who are having most of the babies and the wealthy often only have one. You are right, it is too bad that adoption is so expensive. We could get a lot of babies in good middle-class, educated homes who otherwise couldn't afford it if that were the case.
   
   
   Don't know where I'm going with this. Just wanted to point out that we actually aren't suffering from a huge overpopulation problem. There are still plenty of open spaces. Even China has virtually cut their next-generation population in half.
   
   BTW, most of my stat info came from America Alone by Mark Steyn. But my numbers aren't exact because I gave the book back to the library and couldn't check for accuracy.      by B'sgirl
   
3. Well I guess they need to stop talking about over population (or I am just watching really old shows)      by shan
   
4. I don't know why they keep talking about it. It's a last-generation thing. Maybe in the southern half of the world? Or maybe they are all so worried about us humans destroying the environment that any population is overpopulation? Or maybe they haven't checked current states.
   
   What I think is funny is that Russia actually has this national conception day thing. The government gave everyone a day off work to go make babies. Anyone who gives birth 9 months from that date gets a huge money reward.      by B'sgirl