News flash: Mormons have lotsa kids
Here's a non-surprise to anyone who has waded through the toddler-tide at Salt Lake Airport — Mormons have the biggest families in the United States.
Yes, indeed, an expensive Pew survey found that LDS folk have the largest families in America. Second place goes to Muslims.
Yes, indeed, an expensive Pew survey found that LDS folk have the largest families in America. Second place goes to Muslims.
Here are more no-really? results of the survey:
- Members of the LDS Church have the most children living at home.
- Mormons also lead in households with three children — 12 percent — double the national average.
- The national average of families with no children is 68 percent. But among the LDS members surveyed, it's only 51 percent, the smallest proportion of any group surveyed.
- More LDS members, 76 percent, live in the West than in the rest of the country combined.
- Utah has the highest proportion Mormons, but it's dropped to 58 percent of the state's population. (Less than 60 percent? That is surprising.)
- LDS represent 2 percent of all Americans to 51 percent protestant faiths.
2 Comments:
Lots of kids = lots of pollution. In this day and age, I believe it is immoral to have more kids than you need to replace yourselves on this planet. It is especially immoral to give large families tax credits per child and hand their education bill over to taxpayers who have fewer or no kids in school. The LDS church expands by overbreeding, in hopes that more kids will be brainwashed at an early enough age to grow up to pay more tithing, thereby expanding the empire. If you think the Salt Lake Valley's air is filthy now, wait until that next generation of Mormons grows up and buys their SUVs.
The part about having children being immoral. I disagree. In fact you can raise a family and teach them how to be environmentally friendly. This means using public transportation, recycling, using energy efficient devices, etc... I do agree with the way public funding works but to tell someone they can't have children because they pollute is like telling someone they can't live past age 50 as they have probably consumed all the resources they should be allowed to consume.
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