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To: Lane3 who wrote (14638)	3/14/2006 3:36:25 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 542941

"But as long as the patriarchal system avoids succumbing to these threats, it will produce a greater quantity of children, and arguably children of higher quality, than do societies organized by other principles, which is all that evolution cares about." I wonder if this is true. There are a number of assumptions in this article passed off as if they were fact- the above is just one of them. Seems to me the above contradicts the very thing the author said about places with falling birthrates (that are obviously not patriarchal enough) namely that the quality is so high in these one child families that their parents are unwilling to lose them to the military. If you measure quality by your ability to go to an Ivy league school, get an excellent job, own a million + dollar home, be extremely secure in your retirement with the addition of your parents' assets which you've inherited, and have excellent health insurance, I don't think most parents with 4 kids or more are going to see their children achieve that kind of quality. Fewer kids seems to mean more opportunities for the children, and higher quality children.

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