One possibility: how much was demand-driven by tech (kids with TV & phones & computers & video games not inclined to leave the house)?
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I don't have a nice one-word explanation for this like "education caused the fertility transition" does anybody?
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@sarahdoingthing crackpot theory, after Baumeister: once women started working, they aren’t sacred anymore, so children have to be instead2 replies 0 retweets 20 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing ok nother one crackpot theory, with ht to@robamacl : timing suggests is response to postmodern transition (circa 1980)2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing there’s a pattern of trad groups who move into modernity forcing their women to stay in trad world1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing apparently psychologically lets the men feel they still have one foot in safety of trad while getting scary mod benefits1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing this is part of what is going on with women in islam apparently; they’re forced to hold the sacredness abandoned by men1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing so crackpot theory is adults moving into postmodernity are forcing children to hold sacredness of modernity2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing partly because adults up through gen x at least were raised in modernity, so that’s “how childhood spozda be”1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@sarahdoingthing but also this lets adults keep a sentimental foot in modernity while enjoying benefits of scary new pomo world
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@sarahdoingthing postmodernity has vast memetic freedom not available in modernity—infinite choice—thus restricting child freedom seems >1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing a way to recreate safety of modernity in which everything was done according to a rational system1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes - 1 more reply
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