You know what makes birth rates drop? Higher standards of living. Families who don’t have to raise their kids to work a harsh unrelenting subsistence living, w

You know what makes birth rates drop? Higher standards of living. Families who don’t have to raise their kids to work a harsh unrelenting subsistence living, who don’t need to birth twice as many infants knowing half of them will die of malnutrition and disease long before they reach adulthood, who have access to family planning and reliable birth control, have the luxury of choosing quality rather than quantity. Others don’t. Look back in your own family tree (or stump, in your case), and it’s only three or four generations since us westerners did the same, for the same reasons. So if you’re going to sit up there on your high horse, consider what your ancestors had to go through to put you there, and show some basic consideration for others still struggling on that road.