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101 Things That Can Be Different In the Future: #5 Having Babies
Are you ready for a world in which having a baby is independent of your age, sex, and gender, but merely a question of access to medicine?
The bees and the flowers — the oldest story of humanity. Reproduction is what brought humanity to the point we are now.
But the process of reproduction has undergone major changes in the past decades, with the biggest change yet to come.
For the most part of our history, having children was an exclusive outcome of a relationship between a man and a woman. Though this fact, based on our natural biology, was accompanied by a lot of changes in our social constructs around that matter.
Families were big constructs over centuries, and although there was a biological mother, motherhood was not thought of in a narrow way, as we are applying this word today. Families were commonly working together, mostly in agricultural settings.
The idea of a mother taking care solely of her children was only introduced in the midst of the last century. (This being true for western societies, rural areas in developing countries of the world, still have a different reality today.)
