In fifty years will the idea of a family be a thing of the past?
Will society be some kind of Brave New World?
22-25, F
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Docdon23 · M
Great question to discuss!! Humanity needed families to protect the young and raise them...since we now live at a time when reproducing more people is not an urgent necessity (in fact, we should be working to stop increasing the population), perhaps a new paradigm needs to evolve. We can enjoy sex without doing it to produce children. While this would take a change in relationships, jealousy and more, it is something we should be willing to examine. I have read some sociologists and scholars who claim humans were not designed to live as long as we do, and also are not wired to remain with only one spouse/partner for 70 or more years...
SisterChaos · 22-25, F
@Docdon23 It could be despotic in some group deciding to sterilize the best number of the population, so we reduce the population, but keep just an elite without having been chemically neutered....Covid19?
Docdon23 · M
@SisterChaos Oh, I would never advocate sterilizing anyone or denying anyone the right to have children. I do believe there are many other factors that limit family size. For example, when humans moved from an agricultural society to an industrial society (Europe around 1800) families moved, and the view of children changed from workers on a farm to consumers who cost money, so people lowered the number of children they had. There have also been changes in social conceptions of children and families. When I was growing up I heard from elders that people got married to have kids, and they would ask my older relatives :when are you going to have kids", expecting them to have them. I think that has also changed.
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
NangiUniverse · 31-35, M
Also, not to mention poly family system, @JimboSaturn.
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