Our society needs to allow/encourage intelligent women to be more fertile. Europe is a demographic nightmare are the educated women simply have no/few children, far less than is necessary to keep the population stable. The USA is slightly better, but still very disturbed in the message we give young, intelligent women.
Well yes here in this country intelligence is equated with not having children and going for a career. After all, why waste the brains on little babies and staying at home?
That's the problem. Women have gotten the sour feminist message for more than 40 years now. Being intelligent means being aggressive, unattractive or attractive in a very hard-edged way, pro-abortion and anti-child. On the other hand, men have also gotten that message and now feel free to be anti-family, pro-sleep over dates, and irresponsible (because, after all, she's going to take care of it all, right?).
The problem isn't IQ - it's the lousy messages both men and women have been getting for many a long year now, and which have become incorporated into our society so that kids get them as they are growing up. Especially if they go to public school...
I really don't know what the solution is. I can't blame intelligent women for wanting to be achieviers also in things other than the family life. On a personal level, my mother has an MD and PhD as well as a successfull medical career and still found enough time to have three kids. I guess its all about priorities.
I think there are a few on this thread who are confusing "educated" with "intelligent." One can be both, but one can also be either without the other. I've known people who were plenty smart without a college education, but there are educated fools in abundance, too. Just turn on the TV and listen to a politician or a journalist if you doubt it.