01.03.07
Having Children bad for Women
Check out this article that discusses how the high cost of child bearing could have drivin the evolution of menopause. And thanks to modern technology and medicine, we have birth control.
“One of the other problems we’ve been trying to explain in human reproduction is why women all over the world have been having fewer children whenever they get access to contraception or more education,” says Dr. Penn. “If women bear a higher cost for reproduction than men, then this might help explain why, when they get control over their reproduction, they would have fewer children.”