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Why do more educated people have fewer kids? (pg. 3)
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| SkyHigh |
| quote: | Originally posted by Direct
Good. Damn hicks |
See I knew you cared:) |
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| Project-K |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Not really, though. Obviously there is a correlation, but I am wondering why the correlation exists at all. Rephrasing:
Why does education make people want to have fewer kids? |
Just because they have parallel statistical occurence does not necessarily mean that they have a cause/effect relationship. It seems more likely to me that common societal factors that cause one also cause the other. |
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| BuffaloJared |
| because kids suck |
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| Lira |
| Because you can't make children while you're reading :p |
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| Krypton |
How does one deal with crying babies? I can't stand the shriek of a screaming baby. The poop. The 18 years of your life now becoming secondary.
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| denys envy |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
It is a well-known sociological fact that the higher your education level, the less likely you are to have a large number of children. This holds for entire countries as well -- more educated ones generally have lower birth rates -- and it shows an especially impressive correlation with the education level of women in particular. That is, countries where women have free access to all levels of education and are encouraged to use it to pursue job opportunities are much less likely to have high birth rates.
Why is this? |
probably less likely to have the need of their children supporting them later.
less educated people try to set up more "franchises" in hopes one of them succeeds in sports and whatnot and be able to take care of the parents at retirement. |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Why does education make people want to have fewer kids? |
Well, for one, because it opens up career opportunities for women which are more or less incompatible with having a lot of kids. This correlation, to some degree, would be expected on that basis alone -- even more so because people who would prefer those career opportunities to having a large family are probably more likely to pursue that education in the first place.
To be honest, though, that's probably an incomplete explanation. For instance, better-educated people may be more apt to recognize and appreciate the burdens, both financial and non-pecuniary, that parenthood imposes on an individual, and people who do so are probably less likely to impose that burden on themselves than people who are less cognizant of it, or who, because of other factors such as government aid, are less likely to actually bear the burden themselves.
Moreover, education level probably correlates to some degree with the overall degree of deliberateness with which individuals plan and carry out various aspects of their lives, so it seems likely that we would see more inadvertent pregnancies among the less educated. And more educated people are almost certainly less likely to be pro-life, so a smaller percentage of unwanted pregnancies are probably carried to term by more educated individuals as well.
That is really probably only scratching the surface. Suffice to say, there are many reasons why we should naturally expect to see the observed correlation... |
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| Abercrombie |
| poor people have smaller TVs and less channels |
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| inconspicuous |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
And more educated people are almost certainly less likely to be pro-life, so a smaller percentage of unwanted pregnancies are probably carried to term by more educated individuals as well. |
oh, goodness. |
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| spanglo |
Fact: there is a correlation between education and anal sex - the more education people have the more likely they are to engage in anal sex.
Educated people have far fewer unintended pregnancies then under educated people, and one of the reasons why is because they're doing it in the butt. |
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