What Malthus did not know was that there was already a way to stop population growth in his day. All you have to do is educate girls. Once the girls learn what career opportunities are available to them, they won’t want to spend the best years of their lives barefoot and pregnant. This is part of the reason why population growth slowed down in industrialized countries.
No. What Malthus got wrong was that things like food production does not necessarily increase arithmetically, when human inventiveness comes into play.
What the heck is the line about “barefoot and pregnant” doing on Free Republic?
The traditional Catholic churches I go to have plenty of college educated women who are happy to be mothers of large families. One of my college classmates, Marguerite, didn’t marry until she was 26, and still went on to have 12 children.
The mothers of large families, on average, seem more satisfied with their lives than the typical careerist woman. The “barefoot” part of the expression makes NO sense at all. Although I know one woman who was frequently pregnant and is more frequently barefoot, because she finds it comfortable. “Barefoot and pregnant” is a DUMB expression, and really has no place on Free Republic.
I am an educated woman. The years I spent as a full-time mother were the best years of my life.
Sadly, the family-hating left has brainwashed a large segment of the population.