The Curmudgeon

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Fast Breeder Reaction

A disturbingly large number of Britain's women are still too stupid to realise the financial advantages of childlessness, according to a report by the Fawcett Society. "It is critical that those mothers who choose or need to be in paid work should be able to do so without suffering a pay penalty," said the Society's director, Katherine Rake. In a world of diminishing resources and increased overcrowding, it might be cheaper and more prudent to ensure that men who choose or need to spread their genetic inheritance around suffer an equivalent pay penalty to that inflicted on spawning females; but this view of things does not appear to have occurred to the Fawcett Society. Instead, the report makes a denigrating comparison of Britishness with five sorts of foreignness - a blatant example of failing to compare like with like - and agitates for patent impossibilities like longer parental leave entitlements and interference with market forces in the interests of "affordable childcare".

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