An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the Future of the Human Race

Re:An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the F... by thisarticle on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:16AM (#26618220)

The US makes it very difficult on women who choose to have children. Maybe if we provided more support (financially, logistically, hell emotionally) they’d be more apt to have kids earlier. For my wife and I, we weighed the pros and cons and it was clear it was a bad move for us, so we passed.

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Re:An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the F... by thaumasiotes on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:18AM (#26618823)

> Maybe if we provided more support (financially, logistically, hell emotionally) they’d be more apt to have kids earlier.

The opposite seems to be true; the more support is available, the longer people try to put off childbearing.

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Re:An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the F... by 987yghj on Monday March 29, 2021 @09:26AM (#26621183)

This is the case in all of the western world. We push women in the direction of careers and never mention the consequences.

At the same time, while in some ways people are rich these days, we can't seem to find the time or money to have kids. That's not much of a choice. It's more that people react their to circumstances. If anything it's a form of "ethical" birth control.

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Re:An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the F... by watwut on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:49PM (#26627976)

Whole your theory is based on assumption that women are clueless. Meanwhile, you don't seem to care about cost of various choices to them.

Of course, admitting that maybe women do know all of that and decide to not have kids anyway would be too difficult.

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