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In reply to the discussion: Are Babies for Idiots? Maternal Urge Decreases in Women with Higher IQ [View all]cali
(114,904 posts)28. oh what nonsense.
Last edited Tue Aug 6, 2013, 11:18 AM - Edit history (1)
Today any potential parent with a milligram of empathy and compassion will refrain from procreating. Only someone who is completely bound up in their own psychic wounds and egoic needs would even consider bringing a helpless child into the buzz-saw world that's unfolding around us.Some members of every generation for millennia have seen the world/society as on the precipice of crashing down. Yes, it seems particularly dire now but imagine what it seemed like in other periods; for example in 1941, or during the depression or the plague years in Europe.
To claim that anyone who wants to have children- without any evidence- is severely damaged, is ludicrous.
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Are Babies for Idiots? Maternal Urge Decreases in Women with Higher IQ [View all]
AngryAmish
Aug 2013
OP
Religious fundies have such crappy, boring, lives unless they have several children.
Quantess
Aug 2013
#196
Indeed. Here is the section which so accurately documented the trend cited in the OP
KurtNYC
Aug 2013
#37
and that was one reason why it was released in about five theaters nationwide
AngryAmish
Aug 2013
#115
My husband and I are academics w/no kids. I am NOT suggesting that I have a high IQ
anneboleyn
Aug 2013
#106
What you are describing is someone who didn't have the same vocabulary as you -
hedgehog
Aug 2013
#55
Based on the fact that the whole human species is probably 100x into overshoot.
GliderGuider
Aug 2013
#75
I actually don't think that any amount of human preaching will get people to change their behavior.
GliderGuider
Aug 2013
#86
No, but apparently I'm "completely bound up in my own psychic wounds and egoic needs."
WilliamPitt
Aug 2013
#64
"our culture markets demographic beliefs and turns them into holy writ"
get the red out
Aug 2013
#135
I would also add societal pressure into the mix of variables In some societal segments womens' roles
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#29
There are a growing number of people who don't think the problems are solvable any more.
GliderGuider
Aug 2013
#46
Regarding our offspring solving future problems, do you know "Sevareid's Law?"
GliderGuider
Aug 2013
#78
IMO, any couple entering their reproductive phase now who has more than two children
GliderGuider
Aug 2013
#50
Be careful. I mentioned that I was going to put a "two is enough" bumper sticker on my car, and...
Dawgs
Aug 2013
#92
That places Darwinian pressure on humans to become less intelligent. N/T
GreenStormCloud
Aug 2013
#15
Well, not really. IIRC, intelligence as measured by IQ tests is only weakly inheritable.
Nay
Aug 2013
#141
Perhaps women w/higher IQ's reason through options when unwanted pregnancy occurs AND
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#27
All the ramifications of this are a huge can of worms from the standpoint of natural selection
Zorra
Aug 2013
#62
It always amuses me when people critique an activity that is literally built into our DNA
Dreamer Tatum
Aug 2013
#72
First, I'm a monster for being an omnivore and now my mom's an idiot for getting pregnant. eom
millennialmax
Aug 2013
#82
Regardless, having a child these days is not smart. It's a thoughtless, and sometimes selfish, act.
Dawgs
Aug 2013
#119
Okay, so you're decision was 30 years ago. My initial comment was regarding present day. n/t
Dawgs
Aug 2013
#131
We are humans. We have emotions. We are not robots. If you don't want to have children that's
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#143
Unless they actually measured IQ, which I doubt, they're using college as their metric
mainer
Aug 2013
#122
I honestly find that less-smart types tend to be FAR more arrogant and self-righteous
anneboleyn
Aug 2013
#110
I've seen plenty of arrogant, self righteous people right here on DU.
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#127
It always makes me want to point out there's no history of Alzheimer's in my family.
REP
Aug 2013
#186
Being a mom is a great adventure, and being a mom does not mean that is all you will
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#132
Whoever wrote this article is an idiot. It makes it sound as if there's nothing between
raccoon
Aug 2013
#136
Maybe it could mean that women with a higher IQ only care about themselves where as women with
GalaxyHunter
Aug 2013
#144
Do you really think that will make any difference? It's like the President pissing away his first
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2013
#190