Re:How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)
by wnissen on Monday August 07, 2017 @05:41PM
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85% of women have children at some point in their lives. This is just a fact. You may know that you're not having kids, but the vast, vast majority of people don't make that choice.
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Ofcourse, but he said 'want'. Want to me implies something that is not automatic. Or maybe i'm reading that wrong. And where is that 85% from? Must be per country because in some countries it must be far lower.
Re:How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)
by true_religion on Monday August 07, 2017 @08:54PM
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Sure it's not automatic, but as you can imagine there's an extreme selective pressure towards wanting children.
After all, all the people who didn't want kids, and had a choice about the matter died childless and never passed on their anti-replication genes.
Re:How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)
by jerrylives on Monday August 07, 2017 @05:52PM
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Cool citation
He's not obligated to prove anything to you. If you don't believe him you can easily look up the stat yourself.
Re:How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)
by jerrylives on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:57PM
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They literally just made up a random number
Re:How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)
by patch_collector on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:59PM
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I'll source -- http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/05/07/childlessness/
15% of women ages 40-44 in the USA have never given birth, from which we can pull 85% of women ages 40-44 have given birth, as of 2014.
Wow, I got it right to a percentage point? I didn't realize it was 40-44, so maybe it moves teensy bit with IVF past 44. Thanks a lot for the cite.
Re:How to Pick Your Life Partner (2014)
by greekyogurt21 on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:36PM
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Source = Human Civilization?