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on Friday November 16 2018, @02:15AM
from the not-so-many-men-are-having-children-either dept.
from the not-so-many-men-are-having-children-either dept.
'Remarkable' decline in fertility rates
There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers.
Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were now facing a "baby bust" - meaning there are insufficient children to maintain their population size.
The researchers said the findings were a "huge surprise".
And there would be profound consequences for societies with "more grandparents than grandchildren".
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 16 2018, @06:25PM (2 children)
Your post is heavily tainted by bitterness, but you're not wrong. I'd add another point to the list: men's lives are intrinsically worth less than women's, because on sinking ships it's women and children first, and when the enemy invades it's men who are expected to lay down their lives for everyone else. Me, I wouldn't hesitate to do either of those things because that is how I was raised (by a single mother). But those cultural assumptions remain while the positive places for men have been taken away. Honor and integrity and such values aren't much talked about anymore.
A few extremists have succeeded in doing all those things.
I know as a result men are miserable. They have few remaining rights when it comes to family law or workplace law; they are guilty until proven innocent. I can't say if women are more or less happy than before, but if all the men are miserable then how happy can they really be? Does having a bigger title or larger paycheck outweigh the men around you committing suicide or sinking into self-destructive behavior?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @02:57AM (1 child)
As my animal behavior prof said repeatedly and the single buck in our herd of goats shows each mating season, "Sperm is cheap."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @03:31AM
Unless going the IVR route and even then you might get the wrong sperm. [theguardian.com]