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RE: The Good News: There Are A Myriad Of Evironmental Solutions
I loved that youtube video!
I'm not fully convinced by the 'philosophy' behind family planning, and many of the reasons behind 'educating girls' sound psuedo-nefarious for similar reasons, but in general I do really think that education is such a big part in this (and should be world wide free and available to everyone) that I shan't bicker about the details!
What a great data project, I hope to do cool studies like this with my future data skills!
It's statistically true that the more educated women are, the longer they wait to have kids, or get married, and have smaller families. Anecdotally, just think about it: my grandma was one of 14 kids; my mom was one of 7; I'm one of three ...and this is a pretty common pattern in the western world. Basically, with education comes options. And also, sex ed (hopefully, I'm looking at you, states that teach "abstinence only"). All you gotta do is hang out on Yahoo Answers to see how much people really don't understand pregnancy. There are questions like, "How do I know the baby is mine? My boyfriend had an affair, what if I'm carrying the woman he cheated with's baby??" ...yes, really. I've seen more than one of those on "dumb internet" videos. People don't understand how pregnancy works, they have more unplanned, unwanted, un-prepared for kids. But if they understand how pregnancy works and how condoms work, they have less.
It sounds good! I don't want to sound like a bumpkin, 'educating women is an elitist conspiracy', I love education. I just hope its free, open sourced, organic, and full of all the good stuff. Even I have been taught a lot of hoopla in my day....not all education is created equal I guess is what I mean.
Organic education. XD
Yeah, a lot of my education included whitewashed bullshit nicenice revisionist history ...and did NOT include topics like civics ...but ya know.