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Maybe education _is_ the problem. Maybe we're teaching children that things like career and information hoarding are more important than family and living life in general. And maybe hyper specialized brains (almost computers) should stay in low numbers relative to the general population. Maybe we're just walking hard drives, full of "facts". Maybe we're not as smart as we think.

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"We" are not teaching. Everyone can see for themselves that raising kids is a thankless, difficult job which can hardly be reconciled with a successful career.

You need to connect more with other humans.

I did not get the above information from Mars, but rather from other humans and also from reading and becoming aware of current social topics.

I would have thought that it's a pretty well known thing nowadays that motherhood is at least a part-time job and in spite of the best intentions, fathers can only partly compensate for the additional effort. Furthermore, being a mother is not a respected "job", it's neither associated with a good salary, nor high status.

But perhaps you've connected with other humans or live in a different country. Would be nice to share those experiences instead of acting uppity.

Motherhood is not a zero sum game where having a child is somehow a loss to the mother that must be compensated by the father. It's a cooperative effort, not a competitive one. Motherhood is not respected only by those who don't respect family, and those who don't value and respect the idea of family, well they're lost souls.

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