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> Grunting out 2.6 babies before you’re 35. * destroying your body, stripping your bones, getting diabetes and temporarily (or permanently) disabling yourself
by areoform 6mo ago
> Grunting out 2.6 babies before you’re 35.
* destroying your body, stripping your bones, getting diabetes and temporarily (or permanently) disabling yourself with issues no healthcare provider will take seriously for decades to come for 2.6 babies in your youth.
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Someone called this a "belief."
There's a 10% to 4% probability that the average teenage girl will die from childbirth, given the cumulative risk of pregnancies in nations without modern medicine.
That's the default state of the human condition. Maternal mortality is frequent and 1 in 25 to 1 in 10 for women without modern medical interventions.
see: The probability that a 15 year old girl eventually dies from a pregnancy-related cause, assuming constant levels of maternal mortality and number of births per woman. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/lifetime-risk-of-maternal-death https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/lifetime-risk-of-maternal...
There's a reason why the more women become aware of the risks and downsides of pregnancy – the less likely they are to go through with it. Even when indoctrinated from the start. The only sane solution in an otherwise insane world is technological, external gestation / exowombs.
- chromacity 6mo agoIndeed. Gotta keep that body in a tip-top shape so that we can pull off all-nighters at some dude's AI startup while eating pizza and pretzels.
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- dumbmrblah 6mo agoLol my wife is in better shape now after kids than when she was pregnant, and she was in amazing shape before. For some people having kids crystallizes the importance of health, etc.
- ericd 6mo agoThis happens, but it's not representative. Interesting belief, it seems like it should be self-extinguishing, the cultures that don't believe this kind of thing will tend to take over over time.
- toomuchtodo 6mo agoMost of the world is below replacement rate (~2.1 TFR), the rest will get there in a decade or two. Educated, empowered women delay having children, have less children, or no children. Holds across both developed and developing countries. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/15/5-facts-about-global-fertility-trends/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/15/5-facts-a... https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-countries-by-fertility-rate/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-countries-by-fert...
- alex43578 6mo agoThe world, yes, but specific niches no. Look at the Mormons, or Nigeria, or Somalis in America at 3x the US birthrate.
- toomuchtodo 6mo agoLatter-day Saints are having fewer children. Church officials are taking note - https://www.npr.org/2025/10/31/nx-s1-5535654/latter-day-saints-are-having-fewer-children-church-officials-are-taking-note https://www.npr.org/2025/10/31/nx-s1-5535654/latter-day-sain... - October 31st, 2025 > Dallin H. Oaks, the newly appointed prophet and president of the church, said that while birth rates within the church are higher than national numbers, they've still declined "significantly." > Catholic University of America demographer Stephen Cranney crunched the numbers on the religion's families. In 2008, about 70% of Latter-day Saint women ages 18-45 had at least one child at home. In 2022, that number was 59%, a rate of decline mirrored in the American population at large. Any uptick in birth rate in the US from first generation immigrants quickly reverts to the mean for subsequent generations. The Fertility of Immigrants and Natives in the United States, 2023 - https://cis.org/Report/Fertility-Immigrants-and-Natives-United-States-2023 https://cis.org/Report/Fertility-Immigrants-and-Natives-Unit... - May 1st, 2025 Reproductive freedom (or rather, freedom from reproduction, and its costs and burdens) is culturally contagious.
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- tamimio 6mo agoNothing will destroy you physically, mentally, and emotionally than grinding 12hrs a day just so you can make someone else’s wealthier.
- throwaway290 6mo agooff topic. all risks you mention are in developing countries without good medicine. that's not Japan.
- imetatroll 6mo agoYou raise 3rd world risks and act like they apply to Japan. In Japan your very own data shows < 0.01%. One uncomfortable truth is that being younger is better when it comes to starting a family.
- sph 6mo agoI wonder how humanity managed to survive until today having to deal with childbirth. Such a 2026 tech worker type of comment.
- samus 6mo ago- reproductive drive being what makes biology and evolution work, - no birth control, - tacit toleration of rape in marriage, and - no pension systems in preindustrial societies means that people without children are going to have a rough time in old age.
- ecshafer 6mo agoPregnancy and birth is a miracle. And the death rate is extremely low in the developed world.