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Originally Posted by jjl
Caesarians will grow in the future for another reason in addition to the unpleasant reasons mentioned: Women and children who would otherwise die in childbirth are saved by surgery. Some of this inability to have a normal birth is inherited, so the predisposition is carried into future generations.
This is a specific example of a very general process: medical intervention is changing the population via natural selection to make future generations more and more dependent on doctors.
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That effect would take *much* longer to manifest than the change we're seeing. The sudden increase in the last seven years is an economically and socially driven change.
Botnst, I see where you're coming from, but in my mind, the least the guy can do is be there to support the mom, and it does make a difference. I would really have to think twice, three, four times about a guy who wouldn't do that for me, in the unlikely event I go through the whole thing again!