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advantage?

I am hard pressed to imagine an advantage to keeping people from fulfilling their potential by societal habits. Isn't adolescence a construct of society? Once a person develops the ability to reproduce, aren't they really an adult? We have created ways for people to not reproduce- that is societal- so that people can spend more time learning and growing before taking on the responsibilities of parenthood, but it is possible to have babies and continue to learn and grow, with support which is better if it respects autonomy and is not of the 'significant intrusive parenting' variety, babies or no.

by a reader on Wed, 01/25/2006 - 17:16

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