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caused by... an increase in the number of childless women.

Has there not also been an increase in the number of childless men? Or are men having as many children as they did decades ago, and it's only the women who are having fewer?




Men don't get pregnant. A man and two women can give birth to 10 children (5 each). A woman and two men cannot do the same.


I want to respond to this as I think you just have a fundamental misunderstanding on how wealth, relationships, and childbirth can be related.

A child is not made by the equation (One Female Parent + One Male Parent) + Marriage = Child.

This is not the actual requirement. It just requires sperm + ovum + body to carry the organism to birth. I interpret your comments here as attempting to take a purely logical/fact based approach, but you tie yourself to an unnecessary old fashioned notion of one man and one woman in a contractual union.

A woman and two men can absolutely be parents by inseminating the woman's eggs with their sperm and having someone else carry it, or artificial/manual insemination involving other women. I don't think you take your idea of efficiency here anywhere near the much more natural and sensible conclusion of "for-hire birthers", which already happens. A person, regardless of how they identify, should be allowed to do this; for simplicity sake though, I don't see why you don't mention this in your model -- a rich woman, paying for successors, and having multiple male partners who meets her scrutiny/desires raising the children and passing on genes/knowledge/personality traits.

You can suggest that your ideas imply this possibility, but frankly speaking I don't accept this suggestion; if you meant it, you would just say as such and/or use neutral terms for identifying the progenitors in your examples.


That's ridiculous. Next you'll try to tell me that 9 women can't have 1 child in a month. Any corporate manager can tell you otherwise.




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