I didn't read the entire article. I take issue with any article that uses female education as a reason for the decrease in family size. I understand where it i

I didn't read the entire article. I take issue with any article that uses female education as a reason for the decrease in family size. I understand where it is coming from, but I think it is oversimplified... Increased female education happens when a society is more educated. That is you could probably switch female with male and get the same results (which is also over simplified). The reality is so many things are changing that is causing the birthrate to decrease and it's way to hard to blame it on one factor over another. You could probably argue that technology, wealth and what is the social norm in the society we live have a massive effect on the decrease in birthrate in western countries. Now I live in Israel. The religious have an extremely large number of children and it has nothing to do with the female education level and everything to do with religion! In fact the females are often more educated than the men and are the ones with Jobs!. What is interesting though is the secular Jews, like my wife and I, usually have 3+ kids (we are at number 2). It's just the norm here and society caters to families with children