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Apparently, every opportunity that women are given to delay pregnancy and childbirth is taken. Education advances, health advances, birth control, and wealth ha
by theothermkn 9y ago
Apparently, every opportunity that women are given to delay pregnancy and childbirth is taken. Education advances, health advances, birth control, and wealth have each caused a delay and decrease in reproduction. It's a bit of a cliche fear that is popular because of its simplicity, not its correctness, IMO.
- kimdcmason 9y agoI’m not convinced. It does that for a high percentage of the population. However, after a period, the smaller percentage of the population that don’t reduce their birth rate will become increasingly dominant. Current examples are the rapid growth of Orthodox Jews as a percentage of Israel’s population, and evangelical birth rates in the US. My bet is that given technology to allow massive extension of fertility into older age, the fertility differences between religious groups that believe in a religious duty to procreate, and everyone else, will increase even more.
- carapace 9y agoYeah, it's weird to me that people in general don't see this. I like to joke that the Amish are obviously the one true religion because eventually they'll cover the earth: They live long and peaceful lives, have scores of children, and are among the best farmers on Earth. As long as the rest of us don't do something horrible the end state is inevitable.
- watwut 9y agoThat has a lot to do with consequences of having child. If you are young for long, giving some years to one more child might be less of sacrifice. If you know that having one more child is game over for everything else, you wont get a chance to restart the rest of your life.