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> Having children is a horrible deal for women though Women in every rich country have fewer children than they desire: https://medium.com/migration-issues/ho

• 8note 3y ago
  This is evidence in support of it being a bad deal. If it was a good deal, women would have more children than they want because the economics were right
  • Penyngton 3y ago
    Yes and no. Maybe I should have quoted the following part of the parent's comment: > whenever civil protection and economic freedom gives them any semblance of a choice, the number of children they get goes way down. Which is clearly falsified by the link I posted. I certainly agree with you that the economics of raising children is not right in western countries, but this still doesn't deter women from wanting more children than they're having, so I don't think it's at all fair to say that fewer are willingly choosing to have them.