I so agree with her about the joy of it all and feeling you’re not really supposed to express it.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/874a2d65-8938-4433-a58b-adf3c62535e7?shareToken=b60694d08ea4051e62db552e0ff8288c
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Lovely article on having children by Janice Turner
Swoopy · 29/03/2024 06:26
Why aren’t British women having babies any more?
The UK birthrate has plunged to a new low of 1.49 children per woman. Janice Turner, who has two adult sons, looks back on the joys of becoming a parent — and wonders how motherhood became such a dirty word
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/874a2d65-8938-4433-a58b-adf3c62535e7?shareToken=b60694d08ea4051e62db552e0ff8288c
Guavafish1 · 29/03/2024 06:49
Motherhood is beuatiful for some but not for all. Women must have the right to choose.
ProfessorPeppy · 29/03/2024 07:38
I’m detecting a pattern based on my family:
Grandparents (born 1920ish): had 7 kids.
Parents/uncles/aunties (born 1940s/50s): 3 kids on average (some 4, some 2).
Cousins (1960s-80s): 2 kids max.
Younger cousins (born circa 1990): no kids.
We are definitely heading towards rapid population decline.
ProfessorPeppy · 29/03/2024 07:38
I’m detecting a pattern based on my family:
Grandparents (born 1920ish): had 7 kids.
Parents/uncles/aunties (born 1940s/50s): 3 kids on average (some 4, some 2).
Cousins (1960s-80s): 2 kids max.
Younger cousins (born circa 1990): no kids.
We are definitely heading towards rapid population decline.
AnAwfulPerson · 29/03/2024 07:58
Good. There are more people on our poor exhausted planet than it can sustain.
ProfessorPeppy · 29/03/2024 07:38
I’m detecting a pattern based on my family:
Grandparents (born 1920ish): had 7 kids.
Parents/uncles/aunties (born 1940s/50s): 3 kids on average (some 4, some 2).
Cousins (1960s-80s): 2 kids max.
Younger cousins (born circa 1990): no kids.
We are definitely heading towards rapid population decline.
ViciousCurrentBun · 29/03/2024 07:51
Women had very little choice due to no and poor contraception regarding how many children they had in the UK till the end of the 1960’s. Also pre 1960’s it was incredibly rare to travel overseas. We live in a completely different time if we live in a developed country. When women are allowed a choice and are educated and can earn their own money then the population decreases. When you look at countries with few rights for women they are the countries with young populations.
We were all born in my family born before the pill was invented. My Mother had six living children and 5 miscarriages. I can tell you right now she did not want to be pregnant that many times or have that many children she was just very fertile.
Read up on Thomas Malthus a philosopher, his theory in population growth, what insight that man had.
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