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Family in 2050 guardian article

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hoorayforharoldlloyd · 02/01/2020 07:41

amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/31/family-2050-artificial-wombs-robot-carers-single-fathers

Predictions for family changes by 2050 - blase about artificial wombs freeing up women rather than capitalism crushing women's ability to have children and work etc. Depressing stuff.

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Imnobody4 · 02/01/2020 14:50

Can't help but see the future as dystopian. We still can't help seeing progress as synonymous with technology. We find it impossible to work with nature, we can't help dominating it. I predict the return of full blown eugenics because children will be marketable, a future resource to be exploited. If people are willing to go through surgery to get the 'ideal' body why not create the 'ideal child'.
Personally I think Abba Eban was right 'History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.'

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hoorayforharoldlloyd · 02/01/2020 09:04

Fair point on the development of the feasibility and acceptability of same sex families and support for infertile couples.

I feel disturbed by the way that an artifical womb would have the possibility to say well rich or poor women only get pregnant. If you choose to use your own body then your problem if it isn't compatible with work or childcare. Freezing eggs so we fit work rather than finding ways to make work fit us.

Why is it female. Bodies that need to be closed down or usurped? Would we be better citizens if science allowed us to be better secondary men?

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Melioration · 02/01/2020 08:48

more young people are choosing not to become parents

This is the case in the Far East. It is very noticeable in Japan and Korea and beginning in China.

SapphosRock · 02/01/2020 08:39

Artificial wombs sound better than surrogates.

Yes agreed. Solutions where women and their bodies are not exploited are preferable.

ThereWillBeAdequateFood · 02/01/2020 08:29

I personally think one of the biggest changes will be a massive drop in the birth rate. More and more young people are choosing not to become parents.

WatchingTheMoon · 02/01/2020 08:14

Artificial wombs sound better than surrogates.

SapphosRock · 02/01/2020 08:11

Interesting article - thanks for sharing. I don't see it as entirely depressing - yes the artificial wombs are ethically dubious and I can't get on board with that.

On the other hand so much progress is being made to help infertile and same sex couples have families. The article is focusing on the nuclear family no longer being the norm which is a positive thing for so many.

My DC never would have been conceived a few years ago and our family unit (same sex parents) would never have been so freely accepted so I am personally very grateful for the progress being made and think the positives outweigh the negatives.

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