22 kids- welfare pays ?

An irate Ann Lander's  letter writer complains about a Florida

    man -" extraordinarily virile " , with 22 kids " by three sisters ",

    never employed, and wanting at public expense, " a large house near

    the beach ".

         Ann Lander's replies: " the family does qualify for some government

    aid...Too bad ". She realizes that if the system did not help him, " his

    children would suffer ".

       We celebrate human procreation with " Father's  Day "  and " Mother's

    Day " but seldom reflect on how criminal it is to recklessly bring

    children into the world as a mere feat of " virility ".

        I believe myself a humanist at heart. But the rationalist in me

    understands that the world is already over-populated. How " sacred "

    can human life be when  we reproduce like cockroaches ?

        There should never have been more than a billion " souls " on this

    planet. But we have the most powerful spiritual leader in the world

    telling people in the most populous area of the world : not only reject

    abortion but even birth control ! And " rational " people tremble

    before his divine wisdom !

       I must laugh cynically when I hear people say that the most SPIRITUAL

    experience of their life was the birth of a child .

        I learned in high school biology that all living things reproduce.

    Even a virus molecule is fiendishly cunning about perpetuating its

    kind. We humans are so proud of a power we share with the lowly

    earthworm !

         BIG BROTHER must come to the rescue.  China has the right idea.