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I don't get the point about women education, can you elaborate ?

• Mizza 7y ago
  I've read that the education of women seems to be the thing which has the biggest impact on lowering birth rates in developing nations. Educated women can work better jobs and leave the home more. I'd guess that part of it is also basic sex education about reproduction and contraception, as well as delaying when they start having children if they're still in school.
  • tropo 7y ago
    Well we had this article, severely flagged it seems, about a guy who raised 12 children. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027423 His "wife has several degrees in math, accounting, business, statistics" according to another article he wrote: https://qz.com/248623/how-to-talk-to-your-adult-children-so-they-might-actually-listen/ https://qz.com/248623/how-to-talk-to-your-adult-children-so-... His kids all went off to college, married likewise, and are now popping out grandkids at an astonishing rate. His youngest kids are still in college, and already his 12 kids have given him 18 grandkids. That is 1.5 each, after an average of about 7 years post-college life. If that keeps up, it'll be about 4.5 each in that generation, which is a regression to the mean but still quite large for modern America. So yes, culture (or DNA) matters more than education.
• Jedd 7y ago
  The late, great Christopher Hitchens spoke frequently about this subject -- and it's as good an introduction as any to the hypothesis. Do a web search on, say: christopher hitchens empowerment of women ... and watch a few videos where the explanation is eloquently and humorously laid out, along with some reasons why certain parts of various societies are not keen on it happening.