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Does she sound to you like a modern woman?
by hsn915 4y ago
Does she sound to you like a modern woman?
- ceejayoz 4y agoConsider the possibility that women a hundred years ago didn’t necessarily want that many kids either. How many would have opted for birth control were it more readily available and effective?
- hsn915 4y agoI consider your question/objection offensive. Consider that your projections don't apply to people from a 100 years ago.
- ceejayoz 4y ago[note: OP changed their comment while this was typed up.] Again, not the question. If you went back in a time machine, and said “here’s some medicine, take it if you wanna stop at three kids” and changed nothing else societally, would everyone who had 16 kids still opt to have 16? I think it’s unlikely every single woman would make the same choice given an alternative. Modern or otherwise.
- adaml_623 4y agoThe question was, "What did she want?"
- hsn915 4y agoDid she commit suicide after the 4th kid because it was too much on her? That should answer the silly question. She's not a character from a novel written by a modern day feminist about how hard and traumatic life is in a Middle Eastern country because she has to carry the burden of raising children.
- bombcar 4y ago16 is a bit of an outlier but you can find women today who have that many kids, so someone somewhere chose to do so.
- ceejayoz 4y agoThe number of people who choose to have 16 is non-zero. The number of people who had 16 and didn’t want 16 is also non-zero. Availability of birth control coinciding with a fall in number of children per family suggests what the balance between the two might look like.