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Interesting. I always thought that people stopped having large families mostly due to the economic reasons. ie In an agrarian society more kids = more wealth be
by adammichaelc 16y ago
Interesting. I always thought that people stopped having large families mostly due to the economic reasons. ie In an agrarian society more kids = more wealth because they can work on the farm and so on, whereas in an industrialized society more kids = less wealth because they mostly eat up resources for 2 decades or more.
- m0nastic 16y agoI don't have any data to back up my theory (so by all means take it as an uninformed opinion), but I think that was probably more true in the past. I'm pretty sure that nowadays, counter to what might seem logical, there is a direct correlation between poverty and family size (ie: the poorer the culture, the more children they tend to have). I know I've read articles about India where this seems to be true, at least.
- MichaelSalib 16y agoI don't think your analysis is correct: in general, most families in the agrarian developing world do not have a surplus of land, so larger families are not helpful....
- ceejayoz 16y agoEven a small amount of land is labour intensive when you're farming it by hand.