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Peter Frost's avatar

"There is a stark decrease in 'out of wedlock' (outside marriage) births, especially in Blacks."

Please correct to "stark increase." (I would also write: "There has been ...").

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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's avatar

fixed

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Wasserschweinchen's avatar

This resonates with my lived experience in that I haven't used any illegal drugs since I met my wife, because I feel like she would be disappointed in me if I did, whereas previously I would invariably partake when offered.

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Alden Whitfeld's avatar

Didn’t you find one a few years ago showing no effect? Why the difference in results? https://x.com/kirkegaardemil/status/1480613863079002118?s=46

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Sara the Editor's avatar

Any woman with a reasonable expectation of a stable family or future children will reasonably ask that you not put her or the kids at risk with petty or risky crime. It's kind of a no-brainer. We have less reasonable women than ever, though, so I expect even righteous nagging to get less effective over time as men give up on the game.

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Stig's avatar

The women and their children will survive even if their risk-taking spouses continue with the high risk behaviour (and dies or go to jail)

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Sara the Editor's avatar

The man taking risks make it now likely those risks come home. You can get shot while the cops arrest him or get caught in disputes with rival criminals. If you have any interest at all in the man, you'd prefer him not to get taken away. Remember, getting a criminal woman DOESN'T help, because she's more likely to pivot quickly to a new man and care about nothing but the funds he can provide.

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Brett S's avatar

Completely off-topic:

Are you aware of anything at least semi-rigorously analysing the issue of historical brain-drain from britain to the new world?

I've never read anything like this but I assume it must be the case - you had sufficient quality and quantity of anglos moving to the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (and a lot of migrants to south africa) to establish countries that eventually became wealthy industrial nations, and the people responsible were surely much better than the average Briton is today (otherwise we should expect the UK to be a much better country).

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Reports99's avatar

Very nice reflections here. I liked the fill-in-your-own graphic for the environmentalist position. Case in point is the stupid 30 Million Word project ("put more books in your house and then your child will become smart"). Hart, Little, and van Bergen (2021) wrote a nice paper debunking it in a manner similar to your own.

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The Tortoise's avatar

Women don't make men better men. This is a tradcon cannard. Look around. Do you see any women worth marrying in 21st century America? Today's college "educated" women are encoded with Marxist Feminist anti-male ideology. They hate men and actively seek to emasculate men. As for the non-college women. They may not have been indoctrinated by academia but they have been conditioned by mass media and primary school teachers to hold views on society, justice, economics, crime, sex, and relationships that are incapable with reality. They would make bad wives.

We need to dispense with our preconceived motions and acknowledge human nature. Female nature. Human females exist to extract resources from human males. In return the human male obtains offspring. The human sexes were never intended to be married. We see the truth in this by the high 60% divorce rate. If your car broke down 60% of the time you went for a drive you would cry foul. But some humans, like tracons, still celebrate the failed concept of marriage. We need to let it go.

Let the human population cull itself and reach a new equilibrium. The miserable college educted cat ladies need to be breed out of the gene pool. Men also need to stop knocking up the "easier" low brow women.

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Realist's avatar

"Men also need to stop knocking up the "easier" low brow women."

That is for sure.

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