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I may be talking out of my ass here, but I think college educated people don't have lots of kids by accident. The challenge is purely self-inflicted, so it's n
by saint_fiasco 11y ago
I may be talking out of my ass here, but I think college educated people don't have lots of kids by accident.
The challenge is purely self-inflicted, so it's natural to assume they get something out of it, and status is the most obvious motivation.
Then again, they might be one of those weird mutants who actually like children.
- untog 11y agoIf you dislike children, you're statistics that you're the weird mutant, not the other way around.
- saint_fiasco 11y agoYeah, the last part was bad sarcasm. I'm not an evolutionary psychologist, but I imagine the only thing stronger than a social animal's desire for status would have to be their desire for children.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoI think that the parents and college students dpcan was talking about are non-intersecting.
- saint_fiasco 11y agoI interpreted it as a sequence. The concern for status "transfers over to parenting", perhaps in a similar way as the High School popularity contests are sometimes transferred (hopefully sublimated) to college. Most people have a set of life goals they accomplish in sequence, such as college -> marriage -> career -> children (Some people switch them around or omit some of them)