Originally posted by hectorc
Educated people feel their lives have more meaning than just procreating. They usually focus on their goals and then worry about starting a family.
Good point. Based on what I have read, education also correlates well with a woman's age at the birth of her first child.
Oct-16-2008 22:39
trunks1022
supreme vicodin addict
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: forest hills TA #?
quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
Uneducated women use kids to collect money from the government.
and from deadbeat dads
Oct-16-2008 22:40
Frenchie
life in technocolor
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Intergalactic Planetary
I summed it up.
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Oct-16-2008 22:40
woscar
Starstuff
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Guatemala, Guatemala
quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
So the uneducated people just never learned how to use birth control? I guess "accidental kids" can account for part of the discrepancy at least...
This is partly true, at least what I've seen in countries like mine (yes, my shithole is worse than yours Mr. Biden, lol). Also, poor, uneducated people have more children because they put them to work at a young age to generate more income to the household. They have the mentality that more children = more money. Sadly, that is not the case. These children go to work instead of being at school (getting education) thus creating a vicious cycle.
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Location: Intergalactic Mimosa Station
better educated people have sex less often. less frequent sex = fewer kids (assuming no great difference in birth control, though there may be one). the question, rather, is why educated people have less sex. the answer is they have more demanding jobs, resulting in less free time and more stress.
Originally posted by Frenchie
I summed it up.
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Yep, I was going to post pretty much exactly what you have said. Higher education usually equates to a career where you have to devote much more time to the position. Having children & raising them requires a lot of devotion of time.
I could see the likely hood of less educated women, being stay-at-home wives/mothers is greater, due to not having a real career to be qualified for.