Timeline for Two and a half kids
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| Mar 15, 2017 at 16:51 | comment | added | gloomy.penguin | I don't agree with your second sentence. It's like the concept of a white picket fence... rarely does anyone actually have one or is ever suggesting you actually aspire to get one. "2.5" kids is just an old statistic that implies the same thing by using a 'nuclear family' as emphasis for the American Dream... which is referring to immediate and generational stability, sustainability and success without working tiredlessly. Think Stepford Wives. Usually these ideas come with an undertone of irony, satire or disillusionment. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 14:59 | comment | added | J Preisser | @Anoneemus: I haven't read the book, but after reading your comments maybe the author is voicing an opinion on the conflation of "ideal" and "average"? Also, I don't think it matters what the actual average of children is; that's what the phrase "2.5 children" means, at least in the US. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 5:41 | comment | added | Anoneemus | @sharur Yeah, go ahead. Read the book; it's great if you lack the skill of being unapologetically yourself. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 5:31 | comment | added | Mikey | "Be the best, better than the rest. Be smarter, faster, richer, sexier," implies to me more of an ideal than an average. In fact, the average is 1.87 (CIA World Factbook) children/woman. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 22:26 | comment | added | sharur | @Anoneemus: Regardless of what the passage "wants" or means, the passage is referencing the statistic of an average American family having 2.5 children, as J Preisser states. Also, given the usage of "unrealistic expectations" and mentions of defficating Au and having a fractional number of children, I am inclined to read the passage following the ellipsis as sarcasm. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 21:37 | comment | added | Anoneemus | I've read the book and no; this passage doesn't want you to be average. More like, being perfect. I'm sorry but the majority of the people got that wrong, and now you have the most upvotes. | |
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| Mar 13, 2017 at 18:47 | history | answered | J Preisser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |