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In the case of rape and sexual slavery the answer is fucking never.
January 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Babies born healthier may be the most transformative of all Universal Basic Income effects. Epigenetics shows that healthier babies will be healthier adults, who will have healthier babies, and low birth weight is correlated to less healthy adults who earn less.

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Among the key findings: Compared to their normal birth weight siblings, low birth-weight children are 30 percent less likely to be in excellent or very good health in childhood. They also score significantly lower on reading, passage comprehension, and math achievement tests. Low birth-weight children are roughly one-third more likely to drop out of high school relative to other children. Low birth weight has significant negative effects on adult health, equivalent to being 12 years older in one's 30s and 40s. Weighing less than 5.5 pounds at birth increases the probability of being in fair or poor health as an adult by over 70 percent. Not only does birth weight have large and lasting effects across the life span, the researchers note, but its effects become larger later in life. For example, low birth weight children are nearly twice as likely as their normal birth-weight siblings to be in problematic health by ages 37–52 (23 percent versus 12 percent). The earnings penalty for being born low weight also increases with age, from 10.2 percent at age 25 to 15.6 percent at age 35. Low birth weight is linked to a 10 percent reduction in hourly wages from ages 18–26, compared to the wages of normal birth-weight siblings, but a 22 percent reduction in wages from ages 37–52. Low birth-weight children, relative to their normal birth-weight siblings, work 7.4 percent fewer hours in adulthood. These effects of poor infant health persist, in sibling comparisons, after accounting for the independent effects of birth order, mother's age at birth, birth year cohort, race/ethnicity, family structure, parental income, and parental fertility timing.
December 5, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Every single anti-vaxxer I know (and it turns out I know an alarming amount) took the standard CDC schedule as a kid. Somehow they all miraculously dodged the bullets loaded into every vaccine, though! The absolute nonsense people buy into when they need to feel special, man...
January 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM