Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women

Post by Terr_ » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 7:28 PM UTC

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> Kids adore doing whatever their parents are doing Sometimes I worry that many parents focus in "teaching" or "instilling" a desired behavior at the expense of "role-modeling" it through personal lived demonstration. The latter can be far more powerful because of how kids are hardwired to mimic adults... at least up until a certain age where they go the opposite way. :P > Maybe I should dig up some old IBM PCs It's…

I was playing with my baby's fisher-price rotary phone (the rolling one with the googly eyes) and realized that in the past they would have had much more fun playing with it, since they saw mommy and daddy doing the same thing. It's unfortunate that much of the tools we use today exist virtually, making our kids interests totally virtual as well.

Post by jbirer » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:54 PM UTC

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Exactly. They somehow managed to do it without men?

Since when needs a woman a man to make a baby ? As far as i know this has not been the case since at least 2000 years.

Post by throw__2sdfw » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 6:53 AM UTC

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It's election season and I've been out talking to voters, who share their life stories... what I would say is that there are many women who are choosing WFH because they either can't afford or can't find day care, which may lead to deciding that hey, they might as well have another baby if they are now committed to this employment model. I've spoken to several women who were over-qualified for the jobs they had taken…

> women have stepped up for their families often to the detriment of their own careers Forcing 2 household incomes was/is awful for a healthy society. Women are the only humans that can produce children and they have to do it during a relatively short time window - especially if we want to reproduce at replacement level. Raising children should be regarded as one of the most important things a woman can do because th…

Post by P5fRxh5kUvp2th » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 9:41 AM UTC

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I didn't assume anything, just stated a historical fact. It is possible for parents and grandparents to structure their lives around it being convenient for the traditional role. The fact that American society doesn't do this is a bit of a tragedy. I know families that engage the entire extended family, including grandparents, in raising the next generation. (In fact, its an evolutionary thing. It answers the questio…

Well, if we're in the business of stating "historical facts", I think it's more accurate to state that the traditional role of women was to care for the kids while the father worked. That is, I wouldn't give too much credence to these kinds of "historical facts" on "traditional roles".

Post by brimwats » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 4:05 PM UTC

rajin444 wrote: post #131

poulsbohemian wrote: post #72

It's election season and I've been out talking to voters, who share their life stories... what I would say is that there are many women who are choosing WFH because they either can't afford or can't find day care, which may lead to deciding that hey, they might as well have another baby if they are now committed to this employment model. I've spoken to several women who were over-qualified for the jobs they had taken…

> women have stepped up for their families often to the detriment of their own careers Forcing 2 household incomes was/is awful for a healthy society. Women are the only humans that can produce children and they have to do it during a relatively short time window - especially if we want to reproduce at replacement level. Raising children should be regarded as one of the most important things a woman can do because th…