Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
by lotsofpulp on Monday February 26, 2024 @12:48PM
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I am not patronizing anyone. I am just presenting statistics, and the possibilities for why they are what they are. By far, most (almost all) women who have access to financial independence, physical security, and access to contraception CHOOSE to have 0, 1, 2, or maybe 3 kids.
No one tells them they cannot have 8 or 14 kids. But after having seen what a woman goes through during pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and child rearing, I would easily say that I would also choose 0, 1, 2, or 3 kids. Certainly not double digits.
Re:Why you, personally, should want a larger human population
by shiroiushi on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @02:16AM
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It's amazing how conservative, religious men always think they know what women really want more than actual women do.
As recently as the generation that was born before WWII, even the Boomers, were born into relatively large families. The idea that they hated having so many children would have been foreign to them. On the contrary, it gave them meaning. Family and community life was vibrant. Now, things are desolate. We live in a culture of death.