Recently I stumbled upon the fact that Honey Boo Boo‘s sister had a child at age 18. The grandmother, Honey Boo Boo’s mother, is 33 years old. Younger than I am! Then I see headlines in trashy British tabloids of the form: The three men who have fathered 78 children with 46 different women… and they’re not paying child support to any of them. Here I am, in the fullness of man-childhood, a new father, groping to understand evolutionary process in all its glory, and here are they who live evolution! There are those around us who don’t blink at maximizing their fitness in the modern world. Here’s some data from the GSS:
Humans developed from animals
Number of children
0
1
2
3
4
5
6 or more
TRUE
64.2
55.6
50.7
41.5
35.1
40.7
32.2
FALSE
35.8
44.4
49.3
58.5
64.9
59.3
67.8
Age when first child born
18 and under
19 to 24
25 to 29
30 to 34
35 and above
TRUE
56.6
40.1
54.2
59.2
68
FALSE
43.4
59.9
45.8
40.8
32
Go teen parents! Maybe?