Should there be affirmative action for people born into large families?
If you carefully examined the research studies in your child development classes, then you know that kids from large families tend to be at a disadvantage in school and possibly life in general. (If this is new information to you, try Googling [when bigger is not better family size].)
So should we give people who grew up with many siblings a helping hand?
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No, the parents chose to have that many children. I feel the same way about welfare. A box of condoms is cheap compared to the burden placed on American taxpayers.
Yes. I want my affirmative action. I was the 2nd of 10 kids. I should be able to go to the front of the line. To make matters worse, I was born in the inner city of Detroit. You guys owe me so pay up.
Sure why not? Is that the reason du jour why some people get preferential treatment? What about left handed folks - they deserve more
Actually I have found quite the opposite with my 8 children. The younger ones learn stuff earlier since they hang out with the older ones when we are doing homework and stuff.
No, but I am sure someone will be asking me for Tax Dollars to fund a program for them. Or use it as a legal defense "The Large Family Syndrome".
Ah, heck...Someone will just blame it on Bush anyway...
Not if they don't have the grades to back it up. Problem with Affirmative Action is that it always leaves someone out in the cold. The first people picked to go to a college or job should be the ones with the highest grades or best for the position, plain and simple.
i never thought of that, and i completely agree
a family with 6 kids (depending on the occupation of the parents) should have a marginal (and fluctuating) advantage
especially in college acceptance/scholarships
I am guessing that you are from a large family! Everyone wants something for free these days!
Any 'helping hand' is Anti-Constitutional.
Look up the Equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to the Constitution.
Affirmative Action is racist and a disgrace to the tenets of our Constitution.
There should be no affirmative action for anyone.
No. While I sympathize and empathize with these individuals, giving preferential treatment to anyone could lead to giving preferential treatment for everyone.
Now I'm not some right wing nut who thinks that if you give preferential treatment to people with large families you have to give it to people who say, make love to goats. But with school vouchers already being pushed by the right wing agenda, you could certainly perceive that if preferential treatment was given to say people from large families that religious groups would be up in arms to get their share.
Compounding that, it may be hard (and you may have to work and go to school) but you can receive a government funded education (and they do take into account how many children your family has). So in essence, they already get some sort of preferential treatment, albeit limited.
I don't know. That's a question I never thought of. But if you start doing that then everyone's going to want a hand out because of the family they were born into. My dad was an alcoholic and my mom has a mental illness. I was at a disadvantage because of this. Everyone has a obstacles they overcome, so you have to draw the line somewhere.
In the sense of a community, absolutely. Everyone deserves that helping hand, no matter what their background or circumstances. Those who are disenfranchised should be helped, and those who are in a position to help will benefit from giving of themselves.
HOWEVER
It is absolutely NOT the duty of the government, or any institution thereof, to make these concessions to ANY PERSON. Let me clarify. Any and all aid that people receive in the United States should come from their communities, families, but not from tax dollars. And to say that there are communities that simply won't help themselves is not a good reason why anyone should be forced to help by law. Those who will not take the responsibility to help themselves should not be receiving this special treatment. If they do not receive it, then perhaps the trend of having large families for welfare benefits will diminish, and the "anchor babies" will become a thing of the past. You must ask yourself, how "affirmative" is affirmative action really? Does it honestly help people? Or does it undercut their responsibility to rely on themselves and on their communities for support by simply making it the burden of people who are in no way responsible for those livlihoods? And in effect, causing those communities to sink further into destitution.
Craig
NOOO! One more thing to raise our Taxes! And whats so bad about having a Large Family, unless you have shitty parents. You have alot of people in you life for support, advice, everything. Next people will want affirmative action for Fat People or Midgets. P.S. - I come from a Large family, and im doing OK
There was obviously some affirmative action going on at home to create all those children. No way should anyone get a helping hand for that...parents of that many children know what they're getting them into down the road.
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