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Our concept of whether having children is viable also carries a lot more weight, since contraception is now available and effective. You can think it's a terri

• toasterlovin 8y ago
  > Our concept of whether having children is viable also carries a lot more weight I'm in total agreement. The plummeting birth rates speak to that. I'm taking a biological viewpoint. If a biologist were examining human natural history, the single most peculiar feature would be how birth rates became disconnected from material wealth in the last 100 years.
  • pdimitar 8y ago
    It is very much connected. Many people don't have the necessary stability to raise kids, so they don't. And no small amount of rich people don't want kids because they don't want to dedicate that much attention to something else but themselves -- egotism is not illegal after all. But I think this second example amounts to much smaller contribution to the birth rate decline.