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Was watching the BBC report on this when I'd just got into work. I heard Ben Brown say "when a woman with 6 or 7 children enters this camp...". It was at that point that my apathy switch was activated.
Harsh but true.

Philtaz

Was watching the BBC report on this when I'd just got into work. I heard Ben Brown say "when a woman with 6 or 7 children enters this camp...". It was at that point that my apathy switch was activated.
Harsh but true.

rov1100

Pouring aid into Africa is like pouring money down a drain. You would think that because of death and malnutrition the population would decrease but it increases. Maybe its because they are able to get fertility treatment, take extra doses and end up with large families. A case in point was the Nigerian woman who took drugs ended up with 5 babies and delivered by the NHS.
Having a large family there ensures greater security in old age.

To stop this ever increasing problem money should be diverted into birth control.

Ankou

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so philatz, your sympathy for the children became apathetic because of the mother's fertility ?

interesting.

Philtaz

No, apathetic towards the same perpetual problem in Africa as a result of a comb8nation of religion and lack of birth control.
What's your point?

Philtaz

No, apathetic towards the same perpetual problem in Africa as a result of a comb8nation of religion and lack of birth control.
What's your point?

Ankou

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perhaps the children are not all hers ? maybe their mother's have died in the village and are therefore left behind ?

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Ric.ror

Maybe they have a lot of children because they go and die on them

Philtaz

I know jambos44, unfortunately it's a well documented problem when I post from my phone.
Moot point Ankou as the reasons I provided are not being addressed, decade after decade.

Philtaz

I know jambos44, unfortunately it's a well documented problem when I post from my phone.
Moot point Ankou as the reasons I provided are not being addressed, decade after decade.

New Judge

Just to clarify, the "£20 per head" figure quoted in the earlier question was that needed to fund the ever-generous Mr Cameron's pledge for additional spending in Afghanistan - this time to build roads and schools. The total overseas aid bill amounts to more like £250 per taxpayer.

Anyone wishing to dig deeper to help the latest crisis in Africa is of course more than welcome. As has been said, they might just as well stand outside their house and tear up £20 notes, but that's their choice. My view is that the £250 that is forcibly taken from taxpayers should also be voluntary whilst we are unable to fully fund facilities in the UK.

dave50

All women of child bearing age should be given a contraceptive injection in return for food and water. The end justifies the means I'm afraid.

Ankou

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why stop there dave50 ? why not mass-sterilisation ?

kinell

loads of extra low quality kids to keep you in your old age?

so that you can sit around doing naff all?

from what i have seen they mostly sit around and do nothing and save all their energy for producing another child that they neither have the means or inclination to nurture in a responsible manner....

tough as it is the cycle that these stupid people continue to adhere to needs to be broken.......starvation has a side effect of infertility and in sheer maths and practical terms if a generation was 'lost' it would be a good thing..

if you cant grow enough food and you havent got enough water or medicines ...on a recurring basis..then basic sense dictates that you need to substantially reduce your population..

Ankou

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i see, someone said something similar:

"classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years." (chairman mao)

so we should let the littluns die off so they can restart and learn from our superior model, is that what you are saying ?

Philtaz

You're asking a lot of qhuestions Ankou, so what is YOUR solution to this perpetual problem that increasingly drains the taxes and resources of our and other like nations?
Something radical clearly needs to be implemented, or do you have a solution?

Philtaz

You're asking a lot of qhuestions Ankou, so what is YOUR solution to this perpetual problem that increasingly drains the taxes and resources of our and other like nations?
Something radical clearly needs to be implemented, or do you have a solution?

Ankou

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radical is long term, short term these women and children are suffering. do you suggest we just stand by and watch ?

kinell

our model is clearly superior but still flawed..

we also have very many feckless people who believe that their offspring should be supported at the cost of others..

however although a struggle now we manage to fulfill that obligation to some small degree in the knowledge that we are able and willing to do so..

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