There seem to be a lot of assumptions in the argument for only one child. And even if that specific line of reasoning turns out to be eventually correct doesn’t mean it has to hold now.
I still think this is correct, but a better approach would be to encourage kids to be flexible with their life plan, and to think about making major life decisions based on what the world ends up looking like rather than what they currently think is normal.
Kids raised in larger families tend to see larger families as what they’ll do later in life, and this habit of thought gets placed early on and is hard to change when they’re older, so that’s an example of a good early intervention to prepare them for the future before their preferences get locked in, but it’s not the only one.
I agree that there is a correlation between kids of large families having/preferring larger families, but it is not a strong one, and we don’t know how it interacts with all the other things you assume. So I think is another weak argument with its own set of additional assumptions. I think you have to make a stronger case.
There seem to be a lot of assumptions in the argument for only one child. And even if that specific line of reasoning turns out to be eventually correct doesn’t mean it has to hold now.
I still think this is correct, but a better approach would be to encourage kids to be flexible with their life plan, and to think about making major life decisions based on what the world ends up looking like rather than what they currently think is normal.
Kids raised in larger families tend to see larger families as what they’ll do later in life, and this habit of thought gets placed early on and is hard to change when they’re older, so that’s an example of a good early intervention to prepare them for the future before their preferences get locked in, but it’s not the only one.
I agree that there is a correlation between kids of large families having/preferring larger families, but it is not a strong one, and we don’t know how it interacts with all the other things you assume. So I think is another weak argument with its own set of additional assumptions. I think you have to make a stronger case.