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I think only women can give birth to children. Am I wrong? System should be adjusted accordingly
I won't disagree that there may be some benefits to how we prepare young girls and boys for adulthood, but basing how we do that for girls around being a mother is extreme. Not every woman wants to be or is even able to become a mother. I won't pretend that I have an answer for what the meaning of life is, but I reject the idea that the answer for women is to have babies. If you want to do right by young women in the education system, help them find ~~our~~out what they want to do with their life and find a way to help them achieve that.
This is correct reasoning from ethical and philosophical standpoint. The issue is that we have a ticking bomb here and we need to disarm it somehow.
Kurzgesagt made amazing video about birthrates topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-gYFcVx-8Y
Let's assume it's a ticking time bomb. The solution is to destroy the system that brought us here, which is patriarchy.
I won't lie, the issue of fertility rates is not one I have any prior knowledge of, and I made it about a quarter of the way through that video before I had too many questions to be able to continue. The video says some reasons of low fertility rates is because of poor handling of pensions and high healthcare costs for retirees. Are these not things that can be addressed and fixed before putting the expectation of having more babies onto women?
I feel like putting that kind of burden on women, especially young girls in school is like some form of slavery. Black schools in the US were underfunded by design so that black Americans wouldn't be qualified for higher paying jobs and had less opportunities for a higher quality of life. The proposal in your post doesn't sound very different for women.
Different profile of education doesn't mean worse. Just different. I don't know where "slavery" interpretation comes from.
I can't tell if you're trolling me here. That's literally how whites sold the idea of segregation. And the word "different" in that context is what I was saying about opportunity. When you provide different education to different demographics of people, the levels of opportunity are vastly different for each group. You're idea of curating a young girl's education to prepare her for having babies does exactly that.
I'm not tolling.
And they were lying. I'm not.
Since women can have children, their opportunities are bigger than opportunities of man. Building a family and childcare is an opportunity. Different one than professional career, but it isn't worse in any way. Many people feel lonely and want a child after decades of work, except the biological clock is ticking unequally faster for women, and it might be too late for some. Somehow you people treat children like an unnecessary burden. This is wrong on so many levels. Promoting and educating women in that direction isn't a disservice - it opens completely new path... And benefits whole society in current context.