(September 7, 2024 at 11:26 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(September 7, 2024 at 11:14 pm)Fireball Wrote: He has it wrong. It isn't fertility, it's reproductive choice. But then, most of them get a lot of stuff wrong.
I wonder if this statistic has to do more with church membership than with belief in supernatural stuff.
Like women would be more likely to feel confident about having kids if they're part of a local community, with moral support and a pool of trustworthy babysitters.
The only person in my family who is a member of a church is my brother's oldest daughter. She is very active in her church groups, and is also the only one in our family (so far) to reproduce.
Remember that book Bowling Alone about the atomization of US social life? Something like that. Maybe if we had extended secular social groups of like-minded people who meet regularly, it would make potential mothers feel more confident.
I met my partner at a UU service.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
