At 04:25 PM 7/24/97 +0800, Melanie Dunstan wrote:
>Nicole Youngman wrote:
>>
>> How about sociologist-in-training? <g> Actually, yes, better-off people
*do*
>> tend to have fewer children. We're not sure yet why that is. <snip>
>
>One of the biggest reasons - and you're not necessarily going to like
>this but I've got enough empirical evidence to convince me - is
>SELFISHNESS.
<snip>
I'd like some clarification. I took this hypothetical situation to mean:
the TINKs have money, therefore they are selfish, and therefore they have
no children. The other couple are poor, therefore they are not selfish,
therefore they have children. I can't see how this makes any sense.
-- Janice
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the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and
servilities of the other." Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas
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