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The idea that having children is a joyless burden is very modern, and very specific to certain subcultures. "Great joy" is the default position.
by seneca 3y ago
The idea that having children is a joyless burden is very modern, and very specific to certain subcultures. "Great joy" is the default position.
- stormfather 3y agoThis is perpetually self correcting. The societies which don't take joy in having children die out and are replaced by those that do. Surely this has been happening for millennia, and the reason that we see most societies as being pro-natal is survivorship bias.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoYep. Western secular society is dying and we are just reading the tea leaves as it tries to find out where it went wrong.