By Mazal Mualem and Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Staff: Peres grants Livni extra two weeks to form coalition
Talkback
Title:Ian, what`s wrong with too many children?
Name:Zev Davis
City: Natrzrat `IllitState: ISRAEL
Oy vey, people who have large families, large Jewish families are drain on the economy. Would you have the State of Israel adapt a policy of ZPG, as they do in China and India, where the second child is "illegal"?!

You say you in Ariel, you ought to understand that fact better than those of us who live the other side of the Green Line. Used to be that Jews had lots of children, and then we got "modern", and "secular", and all those so-called virtues. Perhaps it is important to keep up with current developments, but why shouldn`t people have the choice of how many children they want in their family--this is a democracy isn`t it, and we need more Jews.

Could be too, you don`t like the idea of too many Haredim, or for tha matter, too many Traditional Jews, or too many . . . As long as you can live without them too close you and people like you. How about that for intolerance!