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What time frame are we talking about? The last hundred or three hundred years? The last two thousand years? The last million years?
by danbruc 11y ago
What time frame are we talking about? The last hundred or three hundred years? The last two thousand years? The last million years?
- Mz 11y agoWhat part of my comment are you asking about? The falling birth rates following falling death rates is a global trend in my lifetime. Limiting kids to keep you out of poverty and keep you middle class is an observation that goes back at least a few hundred years in Europe. The "most kids are a case of Oops or We tried forever" is personal observation of discussions I have had with people: Any time you get the back story, it is typically one of those situations (tbf, my second child was a case of "we skipped birth control 2 or 3 times" -- which almost felt like an Oops because I was surrounded by people talking about how very long it took them to get child 2 or their latest). Does that help clarify any?