army1987 comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 February 2014 05:32:16PM 2 points [-]

A comment like that comes from a person who isn't even trying to imagine himself in a place of someone who is actually going to conceive and carry to term all those as many as they can children.

While I understand the sentiment here (and I know a number of women who share it), I'm not sure this is correct. I was under the impression that eugenic impulses and pro-natalism were close to evenly split among the genders, and if there was an imbalance, it was that women were more likely to be interested in having babies and in having good babies.

FWIW, the percentage of people who have no children and don't want any is pretty much the same among cis women (39/124 = 31.5%) as among all survey respondents, and so is that of people who don't have children and are uncertain (38/124 = 30.6%).