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thenewgreen  ·  3083 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How American parenting is killing the American marriage

    The origins of the parenthood religion are obscure, but one of its first manifestations may have been the “baby on board” placards that became popular in the mid-1980s. Nobody would have placed such a sign on a car if it were not already understood by society that the life of a human achieves its peak value at birth and declines thereafter.
-For many people the peak value for a human is in utero and it begins its decline at birth.