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You say that as if having children is a disease. If you are old enough to have a child, you are very likely old enough to successfully raise one. Otherwise the
by Aeolun 1y ago
You say that as if having children is a disease.
If you are old enough to have a child, you are very likely old enough to successfully raise one. Otherwise the human race wouldn’t exist.
- tstrimple 1y agoHaving a child under a certain age has all the health risks of a serious disease putting the life of the mother and child at much higher risks. Why shouldn't it be treated as such? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5965834/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5965834/
- Aeolun 1y agoA 5% chance of your child dying when you give birth at age 15 and lower seems pretty reasonable to me? At least I’d have expected those number to be far higher. At 16-17 it’s 4% and at 18-19 it’s 3%, which makes it even better, but 19 out of every 20 children surviving longer than 28 days is pretty good.
- tstrimple 1y ago> A 5% chance of your child dying when you give birth at age 15 and lower seems pretty reasonable to me? You're fucking insane if you'd sign your child up for something that has a 5% chance of death. Literally insane. Gross. Disgusting.
- kazinator 1y agoI smell an evolutionary argument here that is fallacious. For eons, tribes/villages raised children; it was not left entirely to the young mothers.