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The result of this is lower birthrate in the current cultural configuration. As is, women regularly delayed having children until they're near or past their fe
by kiba 2y ago
The result of this is lower birthrate in the current cultural configuration.
As is, women regularly delayed having children until they're near or past their fertility window, if they want children at all. In our current society, it's difficult to both have a career and be a mother.
- shiroiushi 2y agoVery, very true. Professional women these days are going to extreme lengths now to have children at older ages: IVF, etc. As it is, it starts getting difficult at around age 35. Yet, advanced education can easily last until your late 20s, and your late 20s and 30s are the time when you need to build your career. If scientists could come up with a way of making women much more fertile up to, say, age 60 (in an affordable and reliable way I mean, current treatments are unreliable and horrifically expensive), I wonder what effect this would have on the birth rate.
- gred 2y agoOr we could work with the natural order of things, rather than against it... nah, too crazy.
- probably_wrong 2y agoI'm not sure I'm joking when I say: if you manage to convincingly solve the "work/children" dilemma you may become a strong candidate for a Nobel prize (or at least The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences).
- gred 2y agoNah, I would propose that people stop trying to "have it all", accept reality, and settle for one or the other (mainly one for men, and the other for women). Nobody wants to hear that these days, if they ever did.
- shiroiushi 2y agoI suppose you also think it's "the natural order of things" for Black people to be enslaved, right?
- gred 2y agoPlease read the guidelines. Assume good faith.
- kelnos 2y agoI can't imagine anyone wanting to have to deal with raising a toddler in their 60s and a teenager in their 70s. Sure, people do it (e.g., grandparents adopting their grandchildren for whatever reason), but this seems like a generally bad idea. Better would be to just make things easier for parents. Cheap or free childcare, for one thing.