MONKEY wrote:
A few years ago I read about a man who became a grandad at 28/9, he had his daughter when he was 14 and she had a baby at 14. I'd like to see every generation do that so you cold see how many great grandparents can still be alive, it would be even cooler if the oldest lived into their 100s.
It's a bit too late to volunteer yourself for that experiment, then.
If everyone was to do that you'd quickly get more people than food, so a lot of those kids that were thoughtlessly created would starve to death. Due to lack of resources, the quality of life would decline so sharply that we'd go back to medieval life expectancies, if we're lucky. Women would be continually pregnant, whether they wanted to be or not, and most of those kids would die. Basically, no-one would live to 100 - you would be lucky to make it past infancy, and from then on, lucky to reach your 30s.
I'm 24 and don't want kids now and probably not ever. I can't tell you how glad I am to live in an age where I have choice in the matter.
Yes, and I do realise that modern mainstream Western culture has a tendency to strongly discourage young motherhood, both economically and socially. Women who have children young are exercising their rights in the same way I exercise mine, in the face of that stigma. My decision is to not be a mother at all, though, which is still a taboo even by Western standards.
My bf is always telling me, 'someone has to pay for your pension'. Yeah, other people's kids can do that.
_________________
Zombies, zombies will tear us apart...again.