The Unbirthing Of The West

Mary Malone writes:
Apart from religious groups, people in Europe and North America appear to have given up on having children. The catastrophically low birthrate is presented as a choice by ordinary people, a good choice too, one brought about by Women's Liberation.
But in fact it is a choice that has been induced by our masters.
Children are corralled into nurseries and schools, out of the way of mainstream consumption, a burden to those who aspire to the 'freedom' of unrestrained wage labour and commodity capitalism.
If children were once the essence of a family, then the family has been torn apart by the state's intervention in the social institution of marriage and its promotion of divorce.
It is a brave woman who hitches herself to a man these days. In five years time he might be down the road, leaving her to deal with her children. Her man might suddenly decide that marriage is not compatible with his vast egotism and his desire for childish pleasures.
It is a brave man who hitches himself to a woman. He might well end up paying for his wife and children and their home while he is excluded, living alone in a draughty flat. Marriage for a man might well mean a lifetime of debt slavery.
In addition we have endless anti-family propaganda in the schools and the media from the Feminist establishment. A girl who aspires to motherhood and a family quickly learns to hate herself and to regard herself as a fool. Children, she soon learns, are a key element in the oppression and exploitation of their mothers. She learns that relationships are dangerous, that men cannot be trusted, that men are only out to exploit her, that fun and casual sex are the only relief in her hopeless self-harming world.
Mothers are presented to her as subjugated and limited, unable to fulfil themselves in the commodity bureaucratic world, deprived of opportunities for consumption and entertainment. Children, she is told, rob a woman of the chance to satisfy her own needs and her own desires.
The rights of Woman and the rights of the Child are presented as mutually incompatible.
The attachment to wage labour and the money it produces, and the toys that can be gained by money is the main factor in the repudiation of motherhood. The more a woman earns the less likely she is to have children. Only the very rich have as many children as the poor.
Forty percent of English women graduates will never have children.
(The only positive note is that it is the managerial classes who are breeding least)
Higher academic achievement not only leads to higher income, but also a deeper immersion in the hierarchical system, an increased passivity, and a higher level of indoctrination, leaving the women of the military bureaucratic complex unable to use the active initiative required to raise a child.