05-07-2004, 02:58 PM
You'll have one couple who are educated and value education will have 1, maybe 2 kids in their thirties.
On the other hand, you'll have a girl who thinks school is a drag, has no support with school from home (but plenty of excuses: You don't need to know that, I was bad at Math too, ...) who get's knocked up at 16, gets passed around for the next 10 to 15 years and has 3 - 4 more kids.
Assuming that kids learn their values from the parents and they don't deviate too far from their parents (common, not an absolute) and that they meet someone similar to themselve....
In 60 years, from these 2 women,
you will have 4 grandchildren who value education and are very productive members of society
you will have 64 greatgrandchildren who are knocked up at an early age and are producing very little services.
On the other hand, you'll have a girl who thinks school is a drag, has no support with school from home (but plenty of excuses: You don't need to know that, I was bad at Math too, ...) who get's knocked up at 16, gets passed around for the next 10 to 15 years and has 3 - 4 more kids.
Assuming that kids learn their values from the parents and they don't deviate too far from their parents (common, not an absolute) and that they meet someone similar to themselve....
In 60 years, from these 2 women,
you will have 4 grandchildren who value education and are very productive members of society
you will have 64 greatgrandchildren who are knocked up at an early age and are producing very little services.
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<center>Boy the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,
and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
didn't need no welfare states
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our old Lasalle ran great,
those were the days!</center>
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<center>Boy the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,
and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
didn't need no welfare states
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our old Lasalle ran great,
those were the days!</center>