another one"

Always a balancing act as to how many kids were needed for the farm work. Get too many and may not be able to feed everyone enough for the work. Too few and all the crops might be able to be harvested and sold to pay the store bill.

I come from a long line of dairy farmers on one side of my family.

If the parents had too many kids and could not afford to feed them,
they sent the boys out to work in lumber camps or other farms.
The girls got sent out to work in other homes.

Sometimes the kids got sent to the convent or seminary to become priests or nuns.

But the point is they didn't let the kids die on purpose.

My mom's mom died giving birth to her at 42. She was having a child every 3 years until my mom. My grandfather sent all the young ones to aunts and gave up on family life. Just work the land with the older kids.

One of my grandfathers was one of 22 kids.
His mother was pregnant all the time.

sent out from the orphanage to “foster” families on farms. One year she contracted influenza. They just left her in a lean-to against the house and waited for her to die, or get back to work. That was in Iowa in the 1940’s.

Somehow, after the unbridled horror of her childhood, my mom was the kindest, most compassionate and fundamentaly decent person you could know. She held no malice.

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for American kids.
The adults could change that but they don't want to.

right?

Et vous?

It makes me think that she didn't like this poor girl. She also had the other children treated by a quack. Something is wrong with her.

My daughters both received the shots, and did OK.

Religion is the curse of humanity, along with whatever insanity plagues us. We fall for quacks, false profits, cults and just about any nonsense that comes along. Over and over and over again. Most people learned about Hitler, but here we are, with another maniac in charge, and that's not even including The Loon.

And it's not just America! It's all over, like a vicious cycle we just won't break. Another sixty years to beat it back, and then it will just happen all over again.

And I'm still very protective of my 4 remaining children, even when the youngest is 50 yrs old. I'd give anything to have him back.

I just don't understand people like that.

The boy had contracted measles as a 7-month-old, when he was too young to be vaccinated. "He got the virus from a child in his neighborhood who was unvaccinated," says Cvijanovich, who now practices in New Mexico.

It was a relatively mild case of measles, and the infant recovered. She says he grew up to be a healthy, bright kid — an honor student.

Then in middle school, he started to develop troubling symptoms. "He started getting lost between classes, lost like he couldn't find what class to go to next," Cvijanovich says.

Worried, the teen's parents took him to a series of doctors to figure out what was wrong, until a pediatric neurologist finally suspected a condition called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE. It's a degenerative neurological condition that typically develops seven to 10 years after a measles infection. It is almost always fatal. Cvijanovich was part of the hospital team that confirmed the diagnosis.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328765/measles-outbreak-health-risk

They don't trust the "english" science, yet they obey an english quack "alternative practitioner".
That quack doesn't care about them.

They are taught to not harm others, and then make sure to harm others by not vaccinating.

Texas has attracted every insane lunatic in the world to come here.

When childhood diseases were common. At a family reunion, I discovered there was one branch of the family tree that had nine kids. Only two survived beyond puberty.

Criminal-level negligence on their part. And thanks for absolutely NOTHING, Bobby Kennedy Jr.

Tell us more.

the parents were irresponsible. The children should be in protective custody and the parents locked up for the death of their child.

child.dead. Put me on that jury, I know how I would vote.

a truly loving mother....

I'd do anything for my kids. I vaccinated them because I love them.

My middle son is a pharmacy tech and he regularly reminds us of vaccines we should get.

Because he loves us enough to want us to live.

Normal parents would be forever haunted that they caused their child's death and failed to protect him properly. Not say we have 4 other children etc.

... for the the surviving four?

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Dr Ben Edwards at his graduation commencement


It's spread to Arizona, too.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/ejmontini/2015/06/11/arizona-legislature-gov-doug-ducey-aclu-lawsuit-medical-abortion/71014634/

That's comforting.

diseases, but don't take the shot. She would end up tar and feathered. People have no sense of the modern world compared to the past.

The ignorance is exceptional or common today?

snip the guy and stop the madness.

In case of a total system failure, just replace!

How is it that failing to vaccinate your children because...God....isn't?