"Spontaneous generation was a theory to explain some observations. It made predictions that were found to be wrong, and was dropped. There was never any evidence that life couldn't form on its own, just that it didn't do it as often as predicted. You are also confusing evolution and the appearance of life. Evolution is what happened when life existed."
There is no evidence or scientific tests that have demonstrated life can come from non life (spontaneous generation). You must have proof that it can happen before your theory of evolution has any science behind it. There are many kinds of evolution, all collectively fall into the broad umbrella of evolution. Chemical evolution is the attempt to explain how non-life became living organisms. Biological evolution doesn't happen and has never been observed either (a banana becoming a dog).
"There are no cases of irreducible complexity, only dumb and unimaginative critics. Complicated relationships can develop spontaneously over millions of years. Bear in mind that a biological structure doesn't necessarily serve the same function it does now. Wings apparently started as radiators, and started to be useful for some form of flight."
Based on what, exactly? Were you there over millions of years to observe the development of those complicated relationships? When did radiators become wings? When dumbo the cartoon elephant in the Disney movie first aired? Do you realize how many fallacious built in assumptions you have in that single paragraph? Your grasp of science is very weak if you think that imagination is a substitute for evidence, testing, and results.
It looks like the base cost of raising a child to 18 not including private/home school or college is about $260,000 per child. Including college/sports/music lessons/etc. that can more than double. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blo...
" nobody wants to actually spend the time to implement anything and see it through."
Except for, you know, all the parents like me with a PhD who home school their kids while also paying their exorbitant property taxes to to the failing state run schools. Not all parents are willing to get involved. Nearly all parents love their kids, would die for their kids and spend a lot of money and time raising their kids and want the best for their kids.
"I... have zero idea what it takes to... put together a comprehensive educational curriculum, deal with special needs kids, impoverished kids, kids who don't speak English"
Curriculum: Get plugged in to a home schooling program and you will learn that it is trivial. It consists mainly of picking out curriculum from existing textbooks and lists of commonly covered topics in each grade level.
Special needs kids: Why we insist on sending special needs kids to school is beyond me, other than it is a convenient day care for the parents... Special needs kids should all be sent to a special needs school, where by definition they will need to be taught on a 1:1 basis content tailored to their capacities and needs. The goal there should be equipping them to function on their own if possible.
Impoverished kids: It is a lie that poor kids need anything different than any other kid. I was quite poor growing up, but that was beside the point. I learned, applied myself and did well. If kids aren't eating at home, you jail the parents and take their kids away, as there is plenty of assistance for kids getting food/assistance.
Non English speaking kids: English immersion class for 1 year, and then they go into regular classes. ESL classes are a disaster and kids in ESL classes do demonstrably worse.
Actually there is tons of evidence that home schooled kids are smarter than public schooled kids, the (specious) argument by pro state school surrogates is just that they start out smarter, but the fact is they score higher across the board on the standardized test than their public school counterparts.
"Five areas of academic pursuit were measured. In reading, the average home-schooler scored at the 89th percentile; language, 84th percentile; math, 84th percentile; science, 86th percentile; and social studies, 84th percentile. In the core studies (reading, language and math), the average home-schooler scored at the 88th percentile." http://www.washingtontimes.com...
Anything over 50th percentile is scoring higher than the average in public schools. So overall at the 88th percentile, home schooled kids are scoring almost 40% higher than public schools.
It doesn't take a lawyerly type to answer your question, just someone who actually pays attention. Your ad homonym is quite informative on your ignorance.
A. you just sidestepped getting living organisms from non living mater, which doesn't happen, ever.
B. Genetic diversity is more complex. However, call me when you put enough weed killer on a dandelion population to turn one into an apple tree (that's evolution). There is variation in the gene pool, and some organisms like bacteria actively mutate as a means of survival, but they still have boundaries to their variation.
You think he is a troll, I think he is an amateur parody artist. The law says that what CNN did was to the letter felony blackmail. They should have either published his name (and taken the heat for the private citizen exercising his free speech rights losing his job and maybe having his life upended) or moved on. The name of the guy does not advance the story and CNN knew it, so they chose to blackmail him instead, and now they are in deep shit.
On a very serious note for CNN, having information and/or doxxing a troll is not illegal. Blackmailing the troll under threat of doxxing most certainly is. We will see if the law is equally applied to CNN producers and "journalists" now that we don't have a political shill in the AG position. Should be informative to all the fascist alt left progressives who have been running wild for the last 8 years.
This is the very definition of blackmail: do something that we will benefit from that we want or we will do something to harm you/your interests in a serious, real way. CNN is in very deep guano at this point and very likely with this attorney general that someone at CNN will be going to jail after a long, very public trial. CNN should have either published or not published, but demanding something from the meme creator in exchange for not doxxing him is a felony.
CNN reported that James Comey would testify he did NOT tell Trump that he wansn't under investigation. The next day Comey, under oath said that he told Trump he was not under investigation several times.
3 CNN "journalists" were forced to resign (read fired) for publishing a false story about a Trump associate that was totally baseless. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
So a story that has nothing to do with Trumps travel ban (which by the way worked properly, allowing in non-threat robotics teams from even counties on the watch list), yet somehow this is Trumps fault? Since the other teams who WERE from watchlist countries managed to get in, I suspect that this team couldn't make it because they put in their travel applications late or didn't pay the processing fee or some other mundane thing along those lines, but the alt-left media and their lap dogs here on slashdot automatically jump to blame Trump, yet when we find out the truth, that it had nothing to do with Trump, it will be a single paragraph on page 32...
We get it, several of the slashdot editors hate Trump. They haven't published a single positive thing that Trump has done, including the stories that I sent them. Things like: - Trump killing TPP, something universaly called for on slashdot; we get no info from slashdot moderators - Trump reforming the VA - Trump banning travel from state sponsors/hotbeds of terrorisim with poor or no ability to vet potential immigrants - Forcing sanctuary cities to obey the rule of law (regardless of what you think of illegal aliens, local municipalities ignoring federal laws is a recipe for anarchy, because why should I obey their laws if they won't obey federal laws). - Trump slapped new sanctions on Iran for immediately violating their agreement with Obama by firing ballistic missile tests, - Trump added 10,000 border enforcement agents and new ways for ICE to work with state and local LEOs, - Trump has been working to replace Obamacare, which is falling apart (many areas have one or no providers in the exchange and costs have skyrocketed by 49% since Obamacare took effect, often for inferior coverage with deductibles jumping $1000 to up to $15,000/year) https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
Media coverage of Trump is something like 92% negative, and we now have CNN caught making shit up and several CNN contributors admitting that the Russia-Trump thing is total BS. And the media wonders why Trump is calling them out for being fake news outlets...
This crap has been going on for a long time, and it is high time that governments start standing up for their citizens over the lobbyists. From cars that cant be repaired because every part is electronically tagged for the sole purpose of blocking non-OEM parts to smart phones with un-replaceable batteries or software updates that brick your personal property for using a non-OEM vendor to repair your screen or battery. Businesses have been going out of their way to screw over the consumer, repair businesses, and aftermarket parts manufacturers to the tune of billions of dollars, all while the federal government and the EU twiddled their thumbs. It is good to see the EU standing up for their citizens, hopefully the recent Lexmark decision will do the same for the US. https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
On the flip side, I hope that there are allowances made where there is real economic benefit for integrating components permanently (SOC for example can't be repaired. or soldering onto a board VS using a connector saves space and money). Your average TV these days should have an accessible main board that can be replaced, but if the screen fails, it is probably time to buy a new one.
From any evolution textbook: "it rained on the rocks for millions of years, making rock soup, and the soup became alive."
That is the definition of spontaneous generation, it has never been observed or demonstrated in the lab, and you want to call me stupid... Your logical skills need some work.
In Singapore, the driver has the right of way, but in the US, the pedestrian, no mater how stupid, is never at fault. The problem in my case was expecting a modicum of self preservation from an 18 plus year old before just randomly stepping off the curb. In this situation, it probably would have been ruled an accident, but thankfully for me, the oncoming lane was clear and I at least had enough reaction distance (maybe 12 feet at 35 mph or 51 FPS or about 0.25 seconds) to swerve into it and around him. Had I been slightly distracted or an older person with slower reflexes, he most certainly would have been a hood ornament.
I hope you are at least self aware enough to realize that you did not post a rebuttal or, in fact any kind of argument, rather just an ad homonym attack... If you had taken a logic/debate/critical thinking course in HS or college, you would therefore know that you have lost your position and therefore the argument.
Those same witneses were willing to die rather than recant the events that they witnessed
That is a pretty solid testimony
While it's obvious you have been drinking the koolaid, you might want to check your programming because the nonsense you're spouting makes less sense than the usual religious nonsense.
To someone ignorant (either incidentally or intentionally) of historical facts.
Back when the iPod first came out, I almost hit a college kid who literally stepped off the curb with his back to me, never checking oncoming traffic before he stepped out into an unmarked portion of the street (no cross walk or cross street). Sure enough he had white earbuds in his ears, and he was completely oblivious as my tires squealed on the pavement and I stood on the horn, swerving around him (there was literally no distance to brake). It was my first experience with an iPod zombie. Apparently now we have the next generation, the texting Zombies... Yet another way to win yourself a Darwin award.
The financial consequences of the climate change will eventually be enormous, even from leaks that "aren't worth fixing" from a product loss perspective *based on wildly inaccurate climate models that no one believes anymore*. (FTFY) Beyond that, the worst case sea level rise is something like 12 inches. I'm not worried, and you shouldn't be either.
Also, just so you know, it is easily argued that the annual natural methane emission is actually a lot lower since we have a financial use for it and tend to capture it when it leaks to the surface (which does happen, though demand outstrips these natural ventings, leading to drilling for methane). Most sources that naturally find their way to the surface are capped and harvested rather than leaking out into the environment, making the human footprint on overall methane annual atmospheric venting potentially lower than the natural levels that existed prior to human intervention.
What the Washington compost/ alt-left calls critical thinking is not. It is teaching children what to think (values clarification and behavior modification). Just because you call it critical thinking doesn't make it so, just like calling an orange an apple doesn't make it magically an apple. You would know this if you had research and critical thinking skills yourself. Critical thinking is learning logic and logical fallacies and constructing pro and con positions and then making decisions based on which position is stronger.
The article you cite also says Texas doesn't want early childhood education (young children need to learn from and be cared for by their parents, not the state), early sex education (totally inappropriate), and multicultural education (all we need to teach is American culture, that is best and that is what we should all strive for; if it was better where you came from go home, we don't need you). Multiculturalism is a weapon invented by the Democrats to tear apart American culture and balkanize voter groups into special interests that they could then pander to.
Evolution is a garbage theory (essentially spontaneous generation, disproved hundreds of years ago). It has never been observed scientifically and should never have been taught in high schools.
AGW climate change is also BS. From the rise of CO2 (which never happened, concentrations of 600ppm were recorded pre-industrial revolution, hundreds of readings). The appeal to majority logical fallacy (all scientists believe in global warming) is BS to any real scientist (and is just generally BS, it was a pair of self selecting, unscientific surveys) and AGW specifically has huge problems if you look at historical temperatures and the inaccuracies of the temperature models. So yes, this is a start, but I suspect that it is only the beginning of parents taking their schools back from the alt-left brainwashers.
And yet home schooled kids nearly always beat the pants off of public school kids performance wise (70-80th percentile, or 20-30% higher than public school), so what argument are you trying to make again? You might want to have knowledge of your topic before you post.
The biggest 2 problems with school teachers is that we over educate them and we can't fire them when they are bad. If we fixed those two things (allow HS graduates to teach grade school at least) and had parent review boards with the power to fire for under performing teachers, things would get a whole lot better in public schools.
The problem is that this position begins to break the brainwashing cycle that the alt-left has had in education for decades, it is undermining our ability to churn out fascist, atheist progressives and might result in a return of morality and classical critical thinking.
FTFY
And it apparently offends your fascist, alt-left sensibilities to let the unwashed masses who you are clearly smarter than decide what is taught to their own children. Do you even have children?
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I don't have time to respond to all of this, but:
"Spontaneous generation was a theory to explain some observations. It made predictions that were found to be wrong, and was dropped. There was never any evidence that life couldn't form on its own, just that it didn't do it as often as predicted. You are also confusing evolution and the appearance of life. Evolution is what happened when life existed."
There is no evidence or scientific tests that have demonstrated life can come from non life (spontaneous generation). You must have proof that it can happen before your theory of evolution has any science behind it. There are many kinds of evolution, all collectively fall into the broad umbrella of evolution. Chemical evolution is the attempt to explain how non-life became living organisms. Biological evolution doesn't happen and has never been observed either (a banana becoming a dog).
"There are no cases of irreducible complexity, only dumb and unimaginative critics. Complicated relationships can develop spontaneously over millions of years. Bear in mind that a biological structure doesn't necessarily serve the same function it does now. Wings apparently started as radiators, and started to be useful for some form of flight."
Based on what, exactly? Were you there over millions of years to observe the development of those complicated relationships? When did radiators become wings? When dumbo the cartoon elephant in the Disney movie first aired? Do you realize how many fallacious built in assumptions you have in that single paragraph? Your grasp of science is very weak if you think that imagination is a substitute for evidence, testing, and results.
It looks like the base cost of raising a child to 18 not including private/home school or college is about $260,000 per child. Including college/sports/music lessons/etc. that can more than double. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blo...
" nobody wants to actually spend the time to implement anything and see it through."
Except for, you know, all the parents like me with a PhD who home school their kids while also paying their exorbitant property taxes to to the failing state run schools. Not all parents are willing to get involved. Nearly all parents love their kids, would die for their kids and spend a lot of money and time raising their kids and want the best for their kids.
"I ... have zero idea what it takes to... put together a comprehensive educational curriculum, deal with special needs kids, impoverished kids, kids who don't speak English"
Curriculum: Get plugged in to a home schooling program and you will learn that it is trivial. It consists mainly of picking out curriculum from existing textbooks and lists of commonly covered topics in each grade level.
Special needs kids: Why we insist on sending special needs kids to school is beyond me, other than it is a convenient day care for the parents... Special needs kids should all be sent to a special needs school, where by definition they will need to be taught on a 1:1 basis content tailored to their capacities and needs. The goal there should be equipping them to function on their own if possible.
Impoverished kids: It is a lie that poor kids need anything different than any other kid. I was quite poor growing up, but that was beside the point. I learned, applied myself and did well. If kids aren't eating at home, you jail the parents and take their kids away, as there is plenty of assistance for kids getting food/assistance.
Non English speaking kids: English immersion class for 1 year, and then they go into regular classes. ESL classes are a disaster and kids in ESL classes do demonstrably worse.
Actually there is tons of evidence that home schooled kids are smarter than public schooled kids, the (specious) argument by pro state school surrogates is just that they start out smarter, but the fact is they score higher across the board on the standardized test than their public school counterparts.
"Five areas of academic pursuit were measured. In reading, the average home-schooler scored at the 89th percentile; language, 84th percentile; math, 84th percentile; science, 86th percentile; and social studies, 84th percentile. In the core studies (reading, language and math), the average home-schooler scored at the 88th percentile." http://www.washingtontimes.com...
Anything over 50th percentile is scoring higher than the average in public schools. So overall at the 88th percentile, home schooled kids are scoring almost 40% higher than public schools.
It doesn't take a lawyerly type to answer your question, just someone who actually pays attention. Your ad homonym is quite informative on your ignorance.
US Attorney General, and I am sure it is already in work.
A. you just sidestepped getting living organisms from non living mater, which doesn't happen, ever.
B. Genetic diversity is more complex. However, call me when you put enough weed killer on a dandelion population to turn one into an apple tree (that's evolution). There is variation in the gene pool, and some organisms like bacteria actively mutate as a means of survival, but they still have boundaries to their variation.
You think he is a troll, I think he is an amateur parody artist. The law says that what CNN did was to the letter felony blackmail. They should have either published his name (and taken the heat for the private citizen exercising his free speech rights losing his job and maybe having his life upended) or moved on. The name of the guy does not advance the story and CNN knew it, so they chose to blackmail him instead, and now they are in deep shit.
Troll comment on a troll topic; oh the irony.
On a very serious note for CNN, having information and/or doxxing a troll is not illegal. Blackmailing the troll under threat of doxxing most certainly is. We will see if the law is equally applied to CNN producers and "journalists" now that we don't have a political shill in the AG position. Should be informative to all the fascist alt left progressives who have been running wild for the last 8 years.
Yet blackmail still happens to be a felony in the US. Sorry, nice try. CNN should have just published his identity if it was newsworthy.
This is the very definition of blackmail: do something that we will benefit from that we want or we will do something to harm you/your interests in a serious, real way. CNN is in very deep guano at this point and very likely with this attorney general that someone at CNN will be going to jail after a long, very public trial. CNN should have either published or not published, but demanding something from the meme creator in exchange for not doxxing him is a felony.
I believe fraud was already proven several times:
CNN reported that James Comey would testify he did NOT tell Trump that he wansn't under investigation. The next day Comey, under oath said that he told Trump he was not under investigation several times.
3 CNN "journalists" were forced to resign (read fired) for publishing a false story about a Trump associate that was totally baseless. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
A CNN producer was caught on hidden camera admitting that the Trump Russia scandal was BS: http://www.tmz.com/2017/06/27/...
Van Jones, a former Obama lackey and CNN contributor was also caught on undercover camera admitting the same thing: http://www.washingtontimes.com...
Pretty sure you would win that case plus legal fees plus counter suit damages for frivilous suit from CNN...
So CNN is willing to let their reporters go to jail to protect the anonymity of a source, but if you are critical of CNN they will doxx you. Nice
So a story that has nothing to do with Trumps travel ban (which by the way worked properly, allowing in non-threat robotics teams from even counties on the watch list), yet somehow this is Trumps fault? Since the other teams who WERE from watchlist countries managed to get in, I suspect that this team couldn't make it because they put in their travel applications late or didn't pay the processing fee or some other mundane thing along those lines, but the alt-left media and their lap dogs here on slashdot automatically jump to blame Trump, yet when we find out the truth, that it had nothing to do with Trump, it will be a single paragraph on page 32...
We get it, several of the slashdot editors hate Trump. They haven't published a single positive thing that Trump has done, including the stories that I sent them. Things like:
- Trump killing TPP, something universaly called for on slashdot; we get no info from slashdot moderators
- Trump reforming the VA
- Trump banning travel from state sponsors/hotbeds of terrorisim with poor or no ability to vet potential immigrants
- Forcing sanctuary cities to obey the rule of law (regardless of what you think of illegal aliens, local municipalities ignoring federal laws is a recipe for anarchy, because why should I obey their laws if they won't obey federal laws).
- Trump slapped new sanctions on Iran for immediately violating their agreement with Obama by firing ballistic missile tests,
- Trump added 10,000 border enforcement agents and new ways for ICE to work with state and local LEOs,
- Trump has been working to replace Obamacare, which is falling apart (many areas have one or no providers in the exchange and costs have skyrocketed by 49% since Obamacare took effect, often for inferior coverage with deductibles jumping $1000 to up to $15,000/year) https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
Media coverage of Trump is something like 92% negative, and we now have CNN caught making shit up and several CNN contributors admitting that the Russia-Trump thing is total BS. And the media wonders why Trump is calling them out for being fake news outlets...
This crap has been going on for a long time, and it is high time that governments start standing up for their citizens over the lobbyists. From cars that cant be repaired because every part is electronically tagged for the sole purpose of blocking non-OEM parts to smart phones with un-replaceable batteries or software updates that brick your personal property for using a non-OEM vendor to repair your screen or battery. Businesses have been going out of their way to screw over the consumer, repair businesses, and aftermarket parts manufacturers to the tune of billions of dollars, all while the federal government and the EU twiddled their thumbs. It is good to see the EU standing up for their citizens, hopefully the recent Lexmark decision will do the same for the US. https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
On the flip side, I hope that there are allowances made where there is real economic benefit for integrating components permanently (SOC for example can't be repaired. or soldering onto a board VS using a connector saves space and money). Your average TV these days should have an accessible main board that can be replaced, but if the screen fails, it is probably time to buy a new one.
From any evolution textbook: "it rained on the rocks for millions of years, making rock soup, and the soup became alive."
That is the definition of spontaneous generation, it has never been observed or demonstrated in the lab, and you want to call me stupid... Your logical skills need some work.
In Singapore, the driver has the right of way, but in the US, the pedestrian, no mater how stupid, is never at fault. The problem in my case was expecting a modicum of self preservation from an 18 plus year old before just randomly stepping off the curb. In this situation, it probably would have been ruled an accident, but thankfully for me, the oncoming lane was clear and I at least had enough reaction distance (maybe 12 feet at 35 mph or 51 FPS or about 0.25 seconds) to swerve into it and around him. Had I been slightly distracted or an older person with slower reflexes, he most certainly would have been a hood ornament.
I hope you are at least self aware enough to realize that you did not post a rebuttal or, in fact any kind of argument, rather just an ad homonym attack... If you had taken a logic/debate/critical thinking course in HS or college, you would therefore know that you have lost your position and therefore the argument.
Those same witneses were willing to die rather than recant the events that they witnessed
That is a pretty solid testimony
While it's obvious you have been drinking the koolaid, you might want to check your programming because the nonsense you're spouting makes less sense than the usual religious nonsense.
To someone ignorant (either incidentally or intentionally) of historical facts.
Back when the iPod first came out, I almost hit a college kid who literally stepped off the curb with his back to me, never checking oncoming traffic before he stepped out into an unmarked portion of the street (no cross walk or cross street). Sure enough he had white earbuds in his ears, and he was completely oblivious as my tires squealed on the pavement and I stood on the horn, swerving around him (there was literally no distance to brake). It was my first experience with an iPod zombie. Apparently now we have the next generation, the texting Zombies... Yet another way to win yourself a Darwin award.
The financial consequences of the climate change will eventually be enormous, even from leaks that "aren't worth fixing" from a product loss perspective *based on wildly inaccurate climate models that no one believes anymore*. (FTFY) Beyond that, the worst case sea level rise is something like 12 inches. I'm not worried, and you shouldn't be either.
Also, just so you know, it is easily argued that the annual natural methane emission is actually a lot lower since we have a financial use for it and tend to capture it when it leaks to the surface (which does happen, though demand outstrips these natural ventings, leading to drilling for methane). Most sources that naturally find their way to the surface are capped and harvested rather than leaking out into the environment, making the human footprint on overall methane annual atmospheric venting potentially lower than the natural levels that existed prior to human intervention.
What the Washington compost/ alt-left calls critical thinking is not. It is teaching children what to think (values clarification and behavior modification). Just because you call it critical thinking doesn't make it so, just like calling an orange an apple doesn't make it magically an apple. You would know this if you had research and critical thinking skills yourself. Critical thinking is learning logic and logical fallacies and constructing pro and con positions and then making decisions based on which position is stronger.
The article you cite also says Texas doesn't want early childhood education (young children need to learn from and be cared for by their parents, not the state), early sex education (totally inappropriate), and multicultural education (all we need to teach is American culture, that is best and that is what we should all strive for; if it was better where you came from go home, we don't need you). Multiculturalism is a weapon invented by the Democrats to tear apart American culture and balkanize voter groups into special interests that they could then pander to.
Evolution is a garbage theory (essentially spontaneous generation, disproved hundreds of years ago). It has never been observed scientifically and should never have been taught in high schools.
AGW climate change is also BS. From the rise of CO2 (which never happened, concentrations of 600ppm were recorded pre-industrial revolution, hundreds of readings). The appeal to majority logical fallacy (all scientists believe in global warming) is BS to any real scientist (and is just generally BS, it was a pair of self selecting, unscientific surveys) and AGW specifically has huge problems if you look at historical temperatures and the inaccuracies of the temperature models. So yes, this is a start, but I suspect that it is only the beginning of parents taking their schools back from the alt-left brainwashers.
And yet home schooled kids nearly always beat the pants off of public school kids performance wise (70-80th percentile, or 20-30% higher than public school), so what argument are you trying to make again? You might want to have knowledge of your topic before you post.
The biggest 2 problems with school teachers is that we over educate them and we can't fire them when they are bad. If we fixed those two things (allow HS graduates to teach grade school at least) and had parent review boards with the power to fire for under performing teachers, things would get a whole lot better in public schools.
The problem is that this position begins to break the brainwashing cycle that the alt-left has had in education for decades, it is undermining our ability to churn out fascist, atheist progressives and might result in a return of morality and classical critical thinking.
FTFY
And it apparently offends your fascist, alt-left sensibilities to let the unwashed masses who you are clearly smarter than decide what is taught to their own children. Do you even have children?