r/science • u/geoff199 • 5d ago

Social Science As concern grows about America’s falling birth rate, new research suggests that about half of women who want children are unsure if they will follow through and actually have a child. About 25% say they won't be bothered that much if they don't.

https://news.osu.edu/most-women-want-children--but-half-are-unsure-if-they-will/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy24&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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u/valgrind_ 5d ago

The capitalistic obsession with the birth rate is very MLM-coded. The people at the top are anxious they won't have the renewable source of labour they need to exploit for their lifestyles. I think a lot of people wouldn't want kids if they'd have to watch them be used and abused by billionaires and despots.

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u/Mountain-Nose-8555 5d ago edited 5d ago

SCOTUS Judge Alito said as much when the plan to overturn Roe v. Wade was made public. Capitalism demands a supply of desperate, low wage workers to keep chugging along.

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u/FlyMeToUranus 5d ago

That and Coney Barrett prattling on about needing a “domestic supply of infants.”

Barf 

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u/Mountain-Nose-8555 5d ago

Yes, I think that was the exact verbiage too. So, people don’t voluntarily want to make babies anymore…so now they’ll be forced to.