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From http://www.slate.com/id/2202051/ - 'An immutable law of journalism is forcing the pros of the coming depression to rise because reporters and editors tend to bore easily. Yeah, yeah, the Dow dropped 5,000 points today. Give me something the competition hasn't got!'
Last week they all favoured "abyss" but I didn't see one "abysmal". Perhaps the Herald could try "Doon the cludgie"?
"People who like Domino's pizzas have no business breeding."
Have you seen the trailer for "Idiocracy" ?
http://tinyurl.com/5tbeup
Not only the trailer but the film - thought this might be up your street. You do realise this is a reworking of a very Victorian fear, don't you?
"But Miranda Levy, editor of Mother & Baby Magazine, said cost-conscious couples were not thinking long-term."
I think she is wrong. I think it is more likely that the incentives for women to put off having babies have just changed, the world of work looks riskier and less lucrative, and they are responding. A good example of rational choice at work.
"You do realise this is a reworking of a very Victorian fear, don't you?"
Yes. But that doesn't mean there's no truth therein. And in Victorian times there was still mucho social pressure to marry and sprog. And not many women grads.
Telegraph :
"The findings come from a ground-breaking study into more than 5,000 women born in 1970 and tracked throughout their lives by researchers at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, based at the Institute of Education in London.
It revealed that 40 per cent of the graduate women were childless at age 35. The researchers forecast that by the time they reach the likely end of their child-bearing years at 45, about 30 per cent will still be childless.
Of a panel of older graduate women born in 1958, only 32.7 per cent were childless at 35.
The results help to explain the low birth rate which is leading to an ageing population in Britain and much of western Europe.
Overall population decline is only being prevented by immigration and a higher birth rate among non-graduate women."
Intelligence isn't 100% hereditable, but a fair chunk of it is.
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