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Why Society Should Have Children
It’s recently been published that 50% of women never had a child by age 30.
This article will explore the case for having children, but it does not demand that people have children or that the choice not to start a family is valid.
My argument will focus on the necessity for children to look after their parents in old age and the great meaning that can be derived from family and romantic relationships, though there are other outlets.
(Here is my behind the paywall link.)
When deciding whether or not to have a child, the burden of childbirth and the growing of the child is placed squarely upon a woman’s shoulders because only biological women are capable of carrying a child through the nine months of pregnancy.
The Ending of the Welfare State and the Pension
The ability for people to retire only existed in the 20th century.
For ordinary people, before this, the rich or the very well-off could normally retire during their twilight years.
The development of the welfare state in Britain during the early Liberal governments of the 20th century and Clement Attlee’s Labour government of 1945 created the United Kingdom’s welfare state and social security.
