Drawbacks of having LOTS of Kids

[gamblore99]

People with fewer children tend to live longer.

[Mr. Mojo31]

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People with fewer children tend to live longer.

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Data?

[illeagle]

The mom gets a superstretched out vag.

[Mr. Mojo31]

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The mom gets a superstretched out vag.


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Dude, that's what stiches are for. You can actually walk out with a tighter box...

[gamblore99]

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People with fewer children tend to live longer.

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Data?

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From a paper we read in my bio class. Name is "longevity and the barren aristocrat" by daneil E. L. Promislow. The author looked at the records of about 35k british aristocrats throughout 1200 years.

[almostbusto]

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Name is "longevity and the barren aristocrat" by daneil E. L. Promislow. The author looked at the records of about 35k british aristocrats throughout 1200 years.

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that seems like a very bad data set to be working from, for obvious reasons.

i came from a family of six kids (my family wasn't that unusually large for the town that i lived in, there was a family of 11 kids living just two blocks away from us). everything i read in economics literature states that in undeveloped countries children are assets (the provide labor and a safety net for old age much like social security) whereas in developed nations they are obviously liabilities for the first 18+ years of their lives.

i have also read articles on the price elasticity of demand for children in less developed and developed countries. I can't remember all of the conclusions though. Anyway, if you want some hard facts, go to the nearest university's library and search for economic articles about children in developing countries, there is a lot of work being done in that field.

[Blarg]

I read that one reason even the poorest people in the poorest nations, like India (yes I know not all of it is poor, but plenty of it is ridiculously poor) and Bangladesh, keep having enormous families is because the kids' survival chances can be so bad it's pretty much a lottery whether anyone makes it to a sound adulthood to help support the parents. So 12 or 15 doesn't look much worse to them than having just one or two.

[Wynton]

If you have more kids, there are more chances you'll have one with a serious physical problem. On the other hand, if you have more kids, then you have more "insurance" if one comes down with a problem.

I thought about this because I remember my father making a quick remark - which was probably semi-serious at most - that he considered my younger brother that kind of insurance. Except the plan backfired when he came down with a relatively serious condition.

[WhiteMike13]

Child Support

[NozeCandy]

Data from the last 1200 years? Are you serious? Back then the more kids you had shortened life spans probably because women died during birth a hell of a lot more (not saying it was common, but I doubt it was unheard of to anyone in those times). More births = higher risk.