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Monday, May 24, 2004

How to encourage population growth

I'm about to finish reading The Mommy Myth by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels, an entertaining and interesting read. They basically tear apart the new cultural attitudes about motherhood (which some of those Amazon reviewers have bought hook, line and sinker), and demonstrate how they are anti-feminist and trying to replace subservience to men with subservience to children.
In passing, they mention what has become one of the cliches of modern feminism--that it's ironic that the conservative government is rolling back reproductive rights because they "love children" but at the same time rolling back any programs that make it possible for ordinary people to raise their children properly. Reading that and nodding, I thought, "Yeah, it's nearly impossible to raise kids nowadays, and that's one of the big reasons I'm not having any. Good thing we still have birth control."
And then it hit me--how can the government keep the population growth steady while undermining health care and education and steady wages and job security, the very things that make having kids an attractive proposition? Well, by giving women no choice but to have them, that's how.

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