May 09, 2004
Equal parts means less children
This study finds that if work in a household isn't split evenly and put more on either the man or woman, it's more likely that there'll be a second child. I really didn't find this that interesting - I thought "Great, another pointless study." But then I saw that the study came from our own Brown University. So now it not only seems pointless it seems like a waste of funds.
But for the heck of it, I'll try to decipher these results: couples where the work is placed mainly on one person means that he/she is whipped and thus the other is agressive - and this aggressiveness leads to less careful love-making rituals. Either that, or it's become a contest between "modern" (where the man does more work) and "traditional" (where the woman does most of the work) and they're trying to breed and overwhelm the opposite side.
Posted by Edwin at May 9, 2004 10:47 PM
Comments
First: Happy mother's day to all the mothers out there.
Second:
I think Edwin is interpreting the results incorrectly.
I think the article states that if there is a clear system as to how the household chores are split, then there is a higher chance of having a second child. This means that if the system is that the work is evenly split OR if one person does Most of the chores. It's when you don't have this clear distinction or teamwork going on that you're probably not going to have a second child.
This seems to make sense. You gotta have teamwork since it takes two to tango.
Posted by: Bryant at May 9, 2004 11:13 PM
I think both of you are wrong. The real interpretation is as such: if you are a first child, and your parents hate you, they are more likely to have a second one, since killing you isn't generally an accepted practice.
Posted by: Joe at May 9, 2004 11:56 PM
are you saying that every kid that isn't the last kid is hated?
Posted by: Bryant at May 10, 2004 12:25 AM
I think that it the reason that the more modern and the traditional parents decided to have more kids is that they realized that they were working alot and need more "slave" labor.
In the traditional family its the woman who's like I need more help lets have another kid. And in the more modern its the man who's like, I don't have enough time to play poker, let's have another kid.
with the people who don't have a clear plan they both don't know what each other is doing so (and isn't truely mapped out so they both don't feel over worked) they can't meet in the middle to plan the second kid
Posted by: Hux at May 10, 2004 01:05 PM