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> But in most societies around the world, the poor tend to have more kids. That might be true for women but not for men. And the author is talking about men.
by misja111 10y ago
> But in most societies around the world, the poor tend to have more kids.
That might be true for women but not for men. And the author is talking about men.
- stuaxo 10y agoI very much doubt that most of the extra children these women are having are all sired by rich fathers, as opposed to men in their own social group.
- misja111 10y agoThere's plenty of statistical evidence for a positive correlation between income and offspring for men, e.g. http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/papers/91467 http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/papers/91467
- mcguire 10y agoQuick question: what proportion of modern humanity is a descendant of Gengis Kahn?
- Mz 10y agoDivorcing a man with a good income and getting custody of the kids is a good way to wind up poor. Poverty in the US tends to be dominated by women and their children. Most poor women were solidly middle class until they ended up pregnant, divorced or widowed. Men who make good money generally have no trouble remarrying and having more kids with another woman if they want it. Stats I have seen suggest that women are more likely than men to have kids, men who do procreate are more likely to do so with more than one partner. Iirc: about half of all men reproduce, about 80% of all women do. You can infer from that stat right there that men who do father kids have decent odds of fathering them on more than one woman.
- finid 10y agoIt's actually truer for men, especially in cultures where polygamy is legal.