More educated women having more kids October 28, 2014 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,440 |
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It has long been considered a fact of modern life that highly educated women have fewer children. Received wisdom has it that women with university degrees go on to pursue careers and often end up starting their families later than other women. As a result they tend to have fewer children than average.
However, a study to be published in the Economic Journal suggests that this view no longer holds true, and that there has been a significant increase in the fertility rates of highly educated women in the last three decades.
Research by economists Moshe Hazan and Hosny Zoabi finds that, while fertility rates among American women with some form of college education have largely stagnated over the last 30 years, among women with advanced degrees they have risen by more than 50%.
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Siobhan Freegard, co-founder of Netmums, the UK online forum, said many women who used its site expressed a desire to have a third child. “But they know their lives wouldn’t cope with it,†Freegard said. “It’s the women who have good careers, who can afford a cleaner and a nanny who take the stress out of their lives, who can have three children.â€
Freegard pointed out that, unlike in the US, in the UK the stubbornly high cost of childcare meant that for many women larger families were still unachievable. “It’s something we hear an awful lot of on the forums,†Freegard said. “Many women are saying they have to leave large gaps between having their children so that they can get one into school before having another.â€
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They can afford more children but society can't. Where do we put 20 million more born over the next few decades? Where do we build 25 more Birminghams? One child is enough, maximum two. People who have more should pay a tax according to earnings and assets. Utterly irresponsible.
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crazy old crone
At least these folks can afford the kids and won't contribute to overwhelming the safety nets of their countries when jobs are hard to come by.
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you notice that, when they have lots of $$$$, they almost always farm the brats out?
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