Researcher claims women with a high IQ are not interested in becoming mothers

Aug 8, 2013 19:56 GMT  ·  By

An investigation carried out by Satoshi Kanazawa, a researcher presently working with the London School of Economics, has revealed that, the smarter a woman is, the less likely she is to want to have children.

The specialist details his findings in a recent book, titled “The Intelligence Paradox.”

He says that, after compiling and analyzing information provided by Britain's National Child Development Study, he reached the conclusion that every 15 extra IQ points translate into a 25% drop in a woman's maternal urge.

This link between IQ and a drop in maternal urge holds even when variables such as economics and education are taken into consideration.

Satoshi Kanazawa cannot explain why this is the case and admits that the situation is a tad paradoxical.

As he puts it, the reproductive urge is deeply embedded in all humans and there is no reason why smart women should be exempt from it.

“If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success,” the researcher writes in his book, as cited by The Telegraph.

“If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness,” he goes on to argue.

Daily Mail informs us that, since the late 1990s until present day, the number of women who choose not to become mothers has nearly doubled.

More precisely, one in five women around the age of 45 does not have children and is perfectly at ease with this status quo.

Oddly enough, 43% of the 45-year-olds who have a degree are childless. This suggests that, though probably not entirely bullet-proof, Satoshi Kanazawa's claims are not pure speculation either.

Helen Mirren, Cameron Diaz, Oprah Winfrey and Eva Mendes are just some of the public figures who have openly admitted that they do not wish to have children.