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Rutgers Prof On Having Lots of Kids: It‘s ’Littering’
- Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:10am by
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Joy Behar is known for very enlightened guests and commentary. So what did she bring us yesterday? None other than a Rutgers professor telling us that large families, and having lots of kids, is regarded as “littering.” Why? Because “we have too many people on this planet to begin with.”
The guest is Rutgers University prof Helen Fisher of the Center for Human Evolution Studies, who Pat Archbold says has written for Oprah Magazine. She’s also written several books on sex and love.
The comment starts at about 2:27 below:
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jedi.kep
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:02amWe are equating children with litter. Let that thought sink in for a while.
Report Post »frgough
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:57pmAnd this is surprising, why? Obama considers children a punishment. He said it in public, and a majority of people didn’t care.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:01amJoy Behar enlightened? Oh yes, by the Illuminati! The plan is to depopulate the world and turn it over to the animals.
This professor needs to move to Russia or China!
Report Post »Midwestgirl1116
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:01amI cannot stand women like this. “We have children because we don’t know what else to do”? Well okay…I had my first in my mid 30′s. He will be my only but I did and had all my fun before, now I just want to stay home and love and raise my beautiful son. It is by choice and trust me, I have plenty of other things to do with my 30 acres and 5200 square foot home.
Report Post »woodydad
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:59amI believe 5 basic points on the population issue; #1; people don’t make people. #2; God makes people, (conception is a specific and deliberate act of the Holy Spirit). #3; people JUST have sex. #4; which provides God with a window of opportunity. and #5; God,who invented math and can count very well, wont make more people than the world can support. Not that He can only make people if we have sex, He’s quite capable of making them without it and has, but of course those type of people are called Christ.
I personally believe that birth control is the most egregious sin being committed today because it’s where we are playing god the most (“I will ascend on high” Lucifer) and where we actively work the most to keep God from doing the work He is doing through us. If He’s deliberately and specifically making us it must be for a deliberate and specific purpose that He has for us in His great plan for our salvation. Whose side are we on if we’re actively trying to stop Him from getting it done? It also shows a massive lack of faith in Him and a refusal to serve Him. This is exactly the reason that we are losing almost all of Christendom to the muslims today. “Lord Jesus, please take my life and make it yours…..well, except for that baby thing, you really don‘t know what you’re doing there!’
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:56amI am beginning to see a trend here: First they distanced people from religion through media, the courts, education, and public displays. They reduced religion (and all the very relevant societal history attached to it) to a “superstition” shared by illiterate people. Then they change laws and social mores to make it difficult to follow your religious beliefs. Now all these “intellectuals” are given platforms to disseminate their anti-God rhetoric: the Green Movement, the one world order, the UN.
I think that we need to rip a page from their own play books. Infiltrate these organizations and effect change from within. We need to collapse their “grass roots” organizations. I am wondering how we could do this- but something needs to be done before there is a major clash of ideology in this country/world.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 11:36amThere already is a major clash. The good guys (us) against the communists that have infiltrated our country thanks to George Soros. WE ARE AWAKE NOW!!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:56amAmazing, looking over and hearing this herd on TV, the last thing I’d think about as a guy is the actual mechanical act of repopulating the planet. Little blue pills wouldn’t help either.
Report Post »BubbaCoop
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:54amThis has nothing to do with Darwin. Try reading Genesis.
Report Post »obfuscatenot
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:53amNo one is forcing people to have children how can responsible people who care for their children-in all ways, be prohibited from procreating? People like this infuriate me. Give lefty an inch they take a mile. God help us everyone.
Report Post »dawoger
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:50amIsn‘t she the same Godless dolt the several years back floated the idea of human’s once being a fully hermaphroditic species and the separation of the sexes of the species was brought about thru a defective gene that developed in the dominate male and of course the rest is history. Negative history if you buy into the male hating rhetoric espoused by the women leaders in Liberal academia.
Report Post »SandyfromChesterfield
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:47am“Women have kids because they can’t think of something else to do”? A true socialist’s thought/
Report Post »Rita
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:05pmMaybe some women who choose not to have children is because they couldn‘t find the right guy to whom they’d consider to be “father material” or good enough.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:44amThere is nothing enlightning coming from Behar or her show just as this professor shows. Behar and her show plus all of her comments are from THE DARK SIDE! If this woman professor thinks the earth is overpopulated, she should feel free to give up her place. Funny she made no comment on the people really overpopulating the planet and makes it seem like it is this country mainly. Sp typical of the COMMUNITWITS out there now.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:41amHigher education at an eastern elite college…..what more can you ask? Why would anyone send their children to a place like this ?
Report Post »Fighting4America
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:37amWhat in the world. Its littering to have children? Well if we don’t start “littering” more in America someone else will. Not for nothing but Mulsims are having 5-8 babies per household. There is a reason for that!!!! How awful to think that GOD’s creation is considered LITTER. What is wrong with people and God help our students that are being taught by these people.
Report Post »MommaGrizzly
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:35amLittering? Many that go with in-vitro don’t count on having multiples but you never know how many will take (for lack of a better word). But to equate human life with trash left on the side of the road is disgusting.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:35amIf you give every person on the planet a 2 foot by 2 foot square to stand in, you can fit the entire world’s population into Jacksonville, Florida. This nonsense that we are overpopulated is foolishness.
Report Post »cromag11b
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 4:52pmWhere did you learn math?
Report Post »big12texag
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:34amRaising a kid that is a liberal/progressive is littering…
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:33amCurrently in America, birth rate is barely at replacement, so I thank large families! If we Christians don’t propagate, the muslims will take over by attrition!
Report Post »KylieGOP24
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:31amThe majority of Americans have two children or three at the most; so what is this woman talking about? The Latino & Muslim sectors of our population have the most children; a fact!
Joy Betard is a waste of breath. Turn the channel or push mute on your remote.
Report Post »MommaGrizzly
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:37amyeah but if you only push mute you still have to look at her pompous face.
Report Post »Morningcrapper
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:29amThat’s why the left invented Abroation……….Shame they don’t use it more…………
Report Post »faktchekr
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:29amObviously this ‘highly educated” Rutgers professor hasn’t been doing much reading. The European countries aren’t having enough children to even replace their population…but the Muslims are filling in…Americans aren’t either..but the latino population is filling in for us…but evidently this guy is still unsatisfied with amount of abortions…perhaps he should abort himself? Oh wait…he’s probably among the “important” human beings that should have the priviledge of walking this planet…what a TOOL
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:28amOver population is a complete myth. I calculated it out one time. If you divided the world into families of 4 you could give every family 4 acres and a mule and fit them all in the African Savannah. Only Americans who live on the coasts buy the Population Bomb scare. We in flyover country see the vast amounts of room to grow that this world still has.
As for littering, call my child trash to my face.
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Ronko
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:39amI disagree with that because if we get rid of too much farm land we basically are saying that we will have to live off factory food which will make more people Obese which then will make Healthcare costs go up even higher. Overpopulation will be a problem later on in the Century I‘m not saying we should use Extreme methods like the Progressives are talking about I’m saying we should study it when the time comes if Overpopulation actually occurs and we should make a smart decision after all the facts are given and its been 100 % proven that Overpopulation actually occured.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:00amHelp me out Ronko. What is “factory food” and how is it not grown on farm land? Serious question.
Report Post »what4
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:25amI have heard that the entire population of the planet could fit on Long Island, with arm space for everyone. Check it out, it is true!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:16pmRonko, are you talking about soilent green? factory food?
Report Post »marksman234
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:27amIm gonna make sexy time till I have a hundred children…. thanks for giving me a reason to piss liberals off
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:51amsnicker…giggle…snicker….“sexy time”….That‘s a new one I’ve never heard before.
Report Post »BreeZee
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:25amI wish all these progressives that believe in eugenics and abortion would start at home by euthanasing themselves then they wouldn’t have to worry about the world population and we “normal” non elitist can live happily ever after.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:28amExactly. If there are too many people on this earth, this fellow owes it to all humanity to be a good example, bite the bullet (so to speak) and shuffle off this mortal coil. Adios.
Report Post »KylieGOP24
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:34amNow that’s hope & change I can believe in! I absolutely despise liberals, as for progressives it is just a p.c. term for liberalism. They are really POORGRESSIVES.
Report Post »be heard
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:29amGreat idea! You think there’s too many people, start with the wo“man in the mirror”.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 11:52amDon’t forget to redistribute their wealth before Kevorkian comes over for a little nap nap time.
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:18amI wouldn’t say its littering but Overpopulation will be a big problem later on in the Century. Do I think we need a rule like China‘s one child rule no we don’t but I would go with something like 4 children max but thats only when their is 100 % evidence that overpopulation has occured which it hasn’t yet.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:33amThe U.S. is virtually deserted if you look at it realistically, 300 million people inhabiting a major continent makes for a very sparse spread of people. Outside of cities you can drive for hours and only see one house per mile in most places. Who are you to set a limit on how many children a family can have anyway? Seriously, who do you think you are to even suggest such a “policy”. What if we have four kids and my wife is pregnant with a fifth, what are you going to do, fine us? What if we have the fifth and have a sixth coming? What if we don’t pay the fine?
Petty tyrants are everywhere, and the internet gives them a bullhorn. Geesh.
Report Post »Vanes
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:23amI am not surprised at all by these comments. People like this have been around for a long time. What I am surprised by is that the subject of population control is becoming less and less taboo. I mean, seriously, limit how many kids someone can have? That is a little extreme, especially when the average number of children per household has declined. And like ghostofJefferson said, what are you going to do if people go over the limit? Forced abortions, forced sterilization or fertility police? It is a frightening progressive fantasy, to control the population, and should always stay just that.
Report Post »Proud American in Buffalo
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:47amIf I choose to have children I would like to think that I would responsible enough to know when to stop reproducing. People need to look out for the well being of the people they create. I would never have too many children. It would be irresposbile to the kids and just as importiantly to myself.
Report Post »barbaraw62
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 10:54amMaking rules……. good thing that this woman doesn’t have any children……. they would just LITTER this planet… and she is the biggest litterer….. Her mother must have been something else to have her believe that people are like LITTER that need to be cleaned up and thrown away… wonder if she threw away a few through Abortion? Anyway, no making rules as to how many children people have. Answer: If all the people on earth lived in Texas there would be enough room for them there all having 4 children in a home with 4 acres…. Don’t tell me there are too many people on this Beautiful earth that God made!!!!!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 11:05amGood morning Ghost, You should check out the west, you can drive hundreds of miles and never see a single house. As far as how many kids a person can have, well, stop giving more government money to the parasites for every kid they have and you will see a drop in the birth rate. I know it isn’t a popular stand with the pro handouts folks, but it is very true that when you entice some poor schlum with more handouts they will continue to breed to get more money and food stamps.
Report Post »rlmeals
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:47pmI’d like to add my Christian perspective to this conversations (although I’ll concede that not all Christians think this way, but I do). In Psalm 127 and 128 it says:
127:
3 Children are a heritage from the LORD,
offspring a reward from him.
4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
are children born in one’s youth.
5 Blessed is the man
whose quiver is full of them.
They will not be put to shame
when they contend with their opponents in court.
128:
1 Blessed are all who fear the LORD,
who walk in obedience to him.
2 You will eat the fruit of your labor;
blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.
4 Yes, this will be the blessing
for the man who fears the LORD.
My husband and I want at least five, but welcome the idea that God may bless us with more (we already have 2). It seems that nowadays any religion can get an exemption on religion grounds except for Christians. The Amish are exempt from healthcare, the Muslim women are possibly going to be exempt from TSA scanners and pat downs. But for some reason, when a Christian wants to follow God’s teachings, there is no attempt to allow them to freely practice their religion. Maybe that’s because we are so diverse and there are no universal rules that we follow with all our different denominations. But when I study and pray on God’s word, I feel convicted by the Lord as to how He is leading me to follow Him. The number of children we want is something that we feel God has placed upon our hearts, and limiting the number we have would feel like the sin of disobedience, as we would be doing something contrary to what we feel God has called us to do.
As far as being responsible to know when to stop, there are more Christian principles that we live by that ensures our family is taken care of. I won’t list all the verses, but some of these principles that Jesus teaches (and Paul also) are: being good stewards of money, not lusting for material possessions, tithing, being charitable, being prayerful and trusting in God to provide for us. That probably doesn’t make sense to non-Christians, or even to some Christians. I know some Christians who can’t fathom how they should tithe when they are barely making ends meet. But God tells us to do it, and when we do He blesses us. He provides. The first month we tithed $100 that we didn’t have, on pure faith. That same week we got two refund checks in the mail for over paying on a bill and on an insurance policy totaling $99 and change. Anyway, when we follow His word, He provides for us.
I could give bullet point arguments on how these libs are wrong in their justifications for limiting children, forced sterilization, over-population/global warming issues, etc. But all of us on here pretty much know what those are. I just wanted to bring a new perspective into the mix.
Report Post »frgough
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:53pmWe’re nowhere close to the amount of people the world can sustain. Our problem isn’t too many people, it’s too little freedom and capitalism.
Report Post »civilunrestnow
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:14amFIRST!
And you can always count on some whack job college elite to make pontifications that are so out of touch with reality you have to hear it twice before you believe they actually said it.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:36amAnother rat faced Progressive Elitist Professor who shows just how truly lacking in knowledge and the human species as a whole he is. He wants eugenics programs, and population controls just like there is in China. Turn the human person into a number, and then you are just treated like a number to them
“One death is a tragedy, a million is just a statistic” – Lenin.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:38amP.S. The Lenin quote is meant to show that to my perception, we have too many lenin-like evil people in the world. Let them be eugenically controlled first if they believe in it so much.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:44amI think she needs to get in touch with India and Muslims and let them know they are having too many children (clamp those legs, ladies), and keep her nose out of our business. She doesn’t like global warming, let her go tell India and China they need to back off. When are these universitiy parents going to wake up and pay attention to who is teaching their children and what they are teaching them. Before the “awakening” it wasn’t such a big deal but now that we know what is going on, it‘s time to let the schools know we’re on to them. Tenor needs to go and militant professors with it.
Report Post »be heard
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:07amDid they just promote having kids young, when your not thinking? Isn’t that called teen pregnancy? I favor having children when you are mature enough to know that, two responsible people need to be financially and emotionally able to support a child before having one. You should also be able to decide how many you are able to take care of responsibly. Now if you do get pregnant and you know you are unable to take care of your child,(many teens do a wonderful job raising their children and have wonderful support systems, but if you can’t) please look for someone with the above attributes to raise the child.
Report Post »be heard
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:43amJoy is an idiot. I don’t know one women who decided to have a baby because they have nothing better to do. That has got to be one of the dumbest statements I have ever heard. However the comment that people having too many kids are littering is just as stupid. Children are a gift form God and should never be thought of as trash. This is God’s planet and he can create as many children as he pleases. God also gives us free will, so we end up with morons like Joy and her panel.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 10:00amThe problem with society, schools. They are full of these misfits that can’t do anything else. How do they say it, ” if you can’t do it teach it” If not for teaching these misfits would be under a bridge where they belong and why do we allow it?
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 10:16amI bet the professor thinks that allowing gazillions of illegals from who know where into the country is just great.
Report Post »free2bme1961
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 10:39amI watched the show last nite, with disgust! I noticed the use of the word “globalist” which is just another word, for communist, as far as I am concerned. Or, shall I say globalist/illuminati?…lol.
Report Post »To refer to the bearing of children as littering?….This was a dispicable description, of their view, to describe over-population.
The sad reality is, the new airport scanning, is designed to ruin the chances of a healthy woman to bear children. The HPV vaccination, that has been promoted for young teen girls, etc., has left some permanent disabilities, and a few deaths, among those that decided to be guinea pigs, for our NWO government agenda!
Any way you look at our current situation, it is a sure result of the ‘elitists’, trying to play God! History will keep repeating itself, over and over….because, for now, evil tends to be, the accepted “norm”.
BetterDays
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 11:02amobvious it is to me that he is perpetually refused by the coeds and will forever remain childless.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 11:21amI wasn’t aware that they moved Rutgers from New Jersey to China.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 11:44amSo Muslims have an average of 8 kids and we have below 2. We are only a sustained society because of immigration. We are actually not having enough kids to self sustain our society? I think they somehow like what happens to societies that do not populate enough to keep up population decreases? All societies that fall below 1.7 ave kids always fails and falls apart.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 11:47amSo why are they talking about the U.S.?? there are many countries more OVERPOPULATED than we are .. the biggest reason we have so many LARGE families ISN‘T the citizens it’s the citizens from OTHER countries ILLEGALLY entering this country for the FREE STUFF.. who are having the LARGE families.. in my family no one has more than 3 kids with most having 1 or 2.. it’s just working out that way but we have neighbors who are illegal that have 5 or 6 kids.. and in China who has a 1 child rule.. how over populated are they..
Report Post »be heard
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 11:54amFree2beme
Isn’t it funny how the left changes there words like abortion, war, terrorist in the name of political correctness and they choose to use the word litter to describe the most amazing blessing in the world, child birth?
Report Post »Peters
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:48pmThis has been a narcissistic theme that has repeated itself over the course of history time and time again . . . It happens all the time.
I would imagine the miners in Chile that were trapped for months underground in a small and dark world, becoming smaller and smaller, depleted of their life giving resources, probably felt the same things . . . And then from above, technology poked its ugly face in theirs and gave them air to breathe and food to eat . . .
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:56pmPOLWATCHER, and how ’bout those illegals dropping litters of kids so they can get benefits. Joy Behar is encouraging racism on her show by allowing someone talking about ghetto moms and illegals. Where is the compassion that they need crack money, or money to send back to their families. I smell intolerance.
Report Post »justin.blake
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 1:10pmIVE GOT IT! Would those who feel this planet is too crowded please step forward for the next MARS mission?!! I hear there is plenty of room up there on the red planet!
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 1:31pmWas it Rutgers’ that was behind the firing of don Imus for uttering an offensive term?
Report Post »SuperBad
Posted on November 25, 2010 at 1:22amI just want you to realize that after reading the comments dropped by “Be Heard” I couldn’t help but signup just so I can add my 2 cents about “littering”…
@Be Heard – You are an idiot. The term “littering” doesn’t refer to “trash”. I shall explain for your simple mind. When a Mother Dog has puppies what do you call her puppies? I’ll give you the answer, cause I don’t want you to hurt yourself trying to figure it out… The puppies are generally referred to as a “litter of puppies”… Why? You may ask… Because Dogs, like many other animals, typically have 4 or more offspring at a time… Its built into their genetic code because in the animal kingdom, there is a high risk of losing your offspring to other predators, as well as disease and famine.
Now when they talk about “littering” in regards to us “Humans”, they are talking about those who either take fertility drugs and end up like “Octomom” or people like mexicans who typically have enough offspring to form a legion of laborers. So you can hate the college educated “Elitists” all you want, but at least they know how to read into the “context” of what people are saying and draw the “correct” conclusion.
Now that that is cleared up, you can go be outraged at your toaster because it turned your “Poptart” into a regular piece of “toast”… Or did it? ;)
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