Marian Powell

Is it selfish to choose not to have kids?

Over 400,000 children are in the US foster care system on any given night, and more than 100,000 of them are waiting to be adopted. Every single 'be fruitful' lecture delivered in a comfortable suburb happens within driving distance of kids sleeping in group homes. So here's my test for the pro-natalist scolds: show me your adoption papers, or admit that your concern for 'the children' is really a concern for your own lineage. Wanting a miniature version of yourself is the most obviously self-interested motive in this entire debate, and it's the one motive nobody ever calls selfish.

The France anonymous resume study is the kind of evidence that should end debates. Well meaning blindness made things worse. Test interventions before banning things.

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The IBM case is the cautionary tale I keep coming back to. Thirteen years of litigation and the market solved the problem first. But conduct remedies have their own record of being evaded, so I am genuinely torn.

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Strongly disagree that one schedule fits all. Sports have different seasons, different sponsors, different audiences. Centralized bonus tables are bureaucracy, and bureaucracy always lags reality.

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