To reverse the decline of IQ and health, should wives find the best available genes for their eggs, and no required child support for donating sperm?

[Kelley1]

The most rapid advancement of humans occurred 8,000 years ago when DNA evidence revealed that seventeen women reproduced for every one man. Women were breeding to the best.

A significant number of student-athletes have parents who had successful athletic careers, although the exact percentage is not qualified.

Since women cluster in the middle while men have significant percentages at the extremes, fathers have a greater effect on the IQ's, health, and abilities of children.

[exitseven]

Having a welfare system that rewards recipients for having more kids is accomplishing just the opposite. Although this is a slippery slope. Who decides what is a desirable trait/?

[Kelley1]

@exitseven The wife decides. It is an easy choice, a pot-bellied husband vs. an NFL QB.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Snakeyes7]

I think the best way to prevent the loss of IQ is to not inbreed.

[OlderAndWiser]

1. What decline in IQ?

2. You are assuming that any decline in health has been caused by a change in the gene pool. "A significant number of student-athletes have parents who had successful athletic careers, although the exact percentage is not qualified." That is not proof of a genetic connection. Have you ever studied population genetics?

3. "Since women cluster in the middle while men have significant percentages at the extremes," What does this mean?

4. "fathers have a greater effect on the IQ's, health, and abilities of children." This conclusion is preposterous.

5. Does your solution have any placed for a man and a woman getting married, having children, and raising their family together?

[Kaneki05]

Umm health and IQ are on the raise not decline. IQ has dipped a little because that's just how it works. It stalls and pulls back but there is only data proving it will still go up on the long term. And health is obviously going up people are living longer which is a problem because while they live longer they still are retired and not working.
Though AI will solve such issue anyway when most people won't need to work if we do go that direction.

But yes I would wish for more selective picking for whom and whom can't have children. As population is an issue along with family's who don't know how to raise kids.

[blueonblack22]

Being smart doesn’t always mean you are effective, successful or happy for that matter.

While I know I’m not a genius, I do know for a fact I have an above average IQ. But my problem is I overthink the living hell out of everything. It’s caused major problems in career decisions and relationships. I’ve met far dumber people who have been much more successful financially and relationally than I am. High intelligence can also correlate with depression.

[DonaldDarko]

Not if their married, single women cold do that but don't count on a man wanting to raise some other guy's kid. Better yet we do the work and create artificial wombs. All embryos will be screened for defects and only the healthiest and most intelligent will be born. We can birth them by the thousands as well. Not so with women.

[Kelley1]

A wife may not tell her husband that she is doing him a favor by giving him a child that he can brag on. What he doesn't know is good for him.

[DonaldDarko]

No in as much as it is immoral and introduces immorality into the society as a whole. At ground level it is reptile tier jungle instinct not civilizational. A woman who is capable of such a lie or any man as well is probably a sociopath and thus genetically defective herself.

[Kelley1]

That includes most women. We excel at deception and rationalization.

[DonaldDarko]

Then all the more reason for genetic improvement. Best we abandon the male female dichotomy all together and let machines do the reproduction.

[beefcakebradybatson]

My parents had slightly above average intelligence and looks, while I have cover boy good looks at age 72 and a 160+ IQ. Even the brightest parents may have dullard offspring, and vice versa. Choosing the top sperm donors will help but not guarantee the best and brightest children, though it may in the long run get rid of righties !!!

[Kelley1]

Selective breeding never guarantees success, but selecting for the best genes improves your odds by a factor of ten, twenty, maybe forty to one.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Good. Perhaps we can breed out fugly, bigoted white supremacists !!!

[DryGermanGuy]

Are you trying to become part of a „superior breeding program“, Hugo Drax style? 🧐

[Kelley1]

Just answer the question. Don't attack the OP.

[DryGermanGuy]

Well, I can’t see these implications being feasible in modern society, practically everything stands against it. 🤷‍♂️

[Kelley1]

@DryGermanGuy I agree that almost everything in our society, except a woman's subconscious desires, would be opposed. For marriage, women settle for equals, but for a one-night stand, they can fuck much better. Some wives, perhaps a majority or a significant minority, do so occasionally. According to at least one source, it is estimated that seven to 10 percent of children were not sired by the legal fathers.

[DryGermanGuy]

In all seriousness, have you considered doing a semester or year in Europe to widen the horizon and get away from that rather depressing mindset?

[msc545]

The fact that you apparently believe in eugenics suggests that you have an extremely defective education and or an extremely defective cerebral cortex or both.

[Kelley1]

You are welcome to your opinion. After all, it has been drilled into you 24/7 by mainstream media.

[Rangers]

My old buddy msc pretty much summed it up. Now take his advice to heart and maybe you won't be such a bitter, insufferable person for the rest of your life

[sawno]

Eugenicists certainly believe so.

[Boromir]

Have you watched Idiocracy?

[AgentG111]

Sperm Bank?