plunging birthrate

[barnaby33]

I’d be curious to know why woemen chose to have x or y kids? UCGal does your quick tally break down kids/family by nationality or age?

I’ve never felt any pressure to have kids, but most people seem to. I’m just curious what drives the number they envision having.
Josh

[scaredyclassic]

In my experience women like to keep having children even when clearly there are enough.

Men intuitively figure I can have another batch later. Women like more. They’re so cute, and they can always claim after the fact, hoe sad would it be if we’d never have had (. ).

[scaredyclassic]

In my experience women like to keep having children even when clearly there are enough.

Men intuitively figure I can have another batch later. Women like more. They’re so cute, and they can always claim after the fact, hoe sad would it be if we’d never have had (. ).

[scaredyclassic]

In my experience women like to keep having children even when clearly there are enough.

Men intuitively figure I can have another batch later. Women like more. They’re so cute, and they can always claim after the fact, hoe sad would it be if we’d never have had (. ).

[scaredyclassic]

In my experience women like to keep having children even when clearly there are enough.

Men intuitively figure I can have another batch later. Women like more. They’re so cute, and they can always claim after the fact, hoe sad would it be if we’d never have had (. ).

[scaredyclassic]

In my experience women like to keep having children even when clearly there are enough.

Men intuitively figure I can have another batch later. Women like more. They’re so cute, and they can always claim after the fact, hoe sad would it be if we’d never have had (. ).

[briansd1]

[quote=barnaby33]I’d be curious to know why woemen chose to have x or y kids?[/quote]

People believe that having kids makes them happy.

It’s just the way it’s done and the example set by society. So people do it to conform.

If all your friends and family are having kids, it’s time to do it also. Otherwise, you feel left out.

As people age, they make fewer friends so conformity with the peers is important to self-esteem.

[briansd1]

[quote=barnaby33]I’d be curious to know why woemen chose to have x or y kids?[/quote]

People believe that having kids makes them happy.

It’s just the way it’s done and the example set by society. So people do it to conform.

If all your friends and family are having kids, it’s time to do it also. Otherwise, you feel left out.

As people age, they make fewer friends so conformity with the peers is important to self-esteem.

[briansd1]

[quote=barnaby33]I’d be curious to know why woemen chose to have x or y kids?[/quote]

People believe that having kids makes them happy.

It’s just the way it’s done and the example set by society. So people do it to conform.

If all your friends and family are having kids, it’s time to do it also. Otherwise, you feel left out.

As people age, they make fewer friends so conformity with the peers is important to self-esteem.

[briansd1]

[quote=barnaby33]I’d be curious to know why woemen chose to have x or y kids?[/quote]

People believe that having kids makes them happy.

It’s just the way it’s done and the example set by society. So people do it to conform.

If all your friends and family are having kids, it’s time to do it also. Otherwise, you feel left out.

As people age, they make fewer friends so conformity with the peers is important to self-esteem.

[briansd1]

[quote=barnaby33]I’d be curious to know why woemen chose to have x or y kids?[/quote]

People believe that having kids makes them happy.

It’s just the way it’s done and the example set by society. So people do it to conform.

If all your friends and family are having kids, it’s time to do it also. Otherwise, you feel left out.

As people age, they make fewer friends so conformity with the peers is important to self-esteem.

[njtosd]

[quote=walterwhite]
Men intuitively figure I can have another batch later. [/quote]

If that is true then they also must “intuitively figure” that that next “batch” might be a little challenging. There is mounting evidence that older men are more likely to father children with problems – autism and schizophrenia are the most notable, but the list also includes dwarfism, Marfans, etc. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/health/28iht-snfert.4748536.html

So if we’re talking evolutionary biology here, instincts compelling men to have kids at a younger age would be selected for, rather than selected against. In other words, logically speaking, one would not expect a man to choose to have a child at a later date if there is an opportunity to have one earlier. Plus, competition being what it has been for the last million years, men are less likely to have the opportunity at a later date, Strom Thurmond notwithstanding. So, if you are suggesting a biological basis for what you’re saying, I don’t think it works.

[njtosd]

[quote=walterwhite]
Men intuitively figure I can have another batch later. [/quote]

If that is true then they also must “intuitively figure” that that next “batch” might be a little challenging. There is mounting evidence that older men are more likely to father children with problems – autism and schizophrenia are the most notable, but the list also includes dwarfism, Marfans, etc. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/health/28iht-snfert.4748536.html

So if we’re talking evolutionary biology here, instincts compelling men to have kids at a younger age would be selected for, rather than selected against. In other words, logically speaking, one would not expect a man to choose to have a child at a later date if there is an opportunity to have one earlier. Plus, competition being what it has been for the last million years, men are less likely to have the opportunity at a later date, Strom Thurmond notwithstanding. So, if you are suggesting a biological basis for what you’re saying, I don’t think it works.

[njtosd]

[quote=walterwhite]
Men intuitively figure I can have another batch later. [/quote]

If that is true then they also must “intuitively figure” that that next “batch” might be a little challenging. There is mounting evidence that older men are more likely to father children with problems – autism and schizophrenia are the most notable, but the list also includes dwarfism, Marfans, etc. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/health/28iht-snfert.4748536.html

So if we’re talking evolutionary biology here, instincts compelling men to have kids at a younger age would be selected for, rather than selected against. In other words, logically speaking, one would not expect a man to choose to have a child at a later date if there is an opportunity to have one earlier. Plus, competition being what it has been for the last million years, men are less likely to have the opportunity at a later date, Strom Thurmond notwithstanding. So, if you are suggesting a biological basis for what you’re saying, I don’t think it works.

[njtosd]

[quote=walterwhite]
Men intuitively figure I can have another batch later. [/quote]

If that is true then they also must “intuitively figure” that that next “batch” might be a little challenging. There is mounting evidence that older men are more likely to father children with problems – autism and schizophrenia are the most notable, but the list also includes dwarfism, Marfans, etc. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/health/28iht-snfert.4748536.html

So if we’re talking evolutionary biology here, instincts compelling men to have kids at a younger age would be selected for, rather than selected against. In other words, logically speaking, one would not expect a man to choose to have a child at a later date if there is an opportunity to have one earlier. Plus, competition being what it has been for the last million years, men are less likely to have the opportunity at a later date, Strom Thurmond notwithstanding. So, if you are suggesting a biological basis for what you’re saying, I don’t think it works.

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