Today marks the first day of the Chinese New Year! So...Happy New Year!!!!!!
With that being said this year begins the year of the Dragon and the Asian community is more than happy to pop out as many babies as they can being that the year of the Dragon is considered to be the luckiest of the Chinese Lunar years. "Dragons possess a certain natural, charming charisma that ensures they can always influence their peers and often find themselves the center of attention in social situations."
--http://www.babiesonline.com/horoscope/chinesezodiac/dragon.asp
SN: I was born in the year of the Dragon!
Having a baby duing this year is said to send your child good fortune. Asian countries have in the past and are currently expecting a spike in births for this up & coming year; which would be an excellent change for low populated countries(Singapore) and possibly not such a good idea for highly populated counties(China or Indonesia). Wheather the out come of this Baby Boom is positive or negative, one thing's for sure; women every where are waddling around pregnant with new life!
SN: Everyone that is, except me.
It seems that eveytime I turn around someone I knew or know is pregnant or just had a child. The year of 2011 was a huge Baby Booming year for young America. With hit shows like 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom, TV stations like MTV use their brocasting power to display just how challening it can be to raise a child at such a young age. However, my peers are unconvinced. As much as I dream of one day starting a family of my own, I would rather wait until the situation that I chose to birth my child into becomes a little more stable.
My prediction is that the birth rates are only going to rise, especially in the year of the Dragon. I am not quite sure what the fascination about being pregnant and having a child without a spouse to help you raise the child is. But more and more I hear my peers discussing having a child and my question to them is always the same, "With who??? If you aren't in a relationship with whom do you plan on conceiving this child with? Then who is going to help you raise the unfortunate little kid. How could a person become so consumed with themselves and being lonely that they would go as far to try to trick and trap a female or male into having a baby.
SN: Believe it or not men are desiring children nowadays, however they are reluctant to the actual relationship...Crazy isn't it, who would have called the day when guys in their mid twenties were telling females, "All I want is my Seed". LOL
This is something that I cannot wrap my head around for the World of me. Most of the people who have these children end up raising their offspring alone. I don't know about you but that is something I'm not willing to settle for. I am all for child rearing when you have the support that is needed to raise the child right inorder for them to become a productive citizen of the World. However, to bring a child into the World because of your own selfish reasons, then to have that child be raised in an adverse enviornment all to potentially become terrors of America, I just don't get it! This I will NEVER understand.
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