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If you think about it this suggests a strong selective pressure for religious communities that consider birth control sinful.
by klipt 5y ago
If you think about it this suggests a strong selective pressure for religious communities that consider birth control sinful.
- noofen 5y agoIt also suggests a strong selective pressure for uneducated, unproductive communities that do nothing but breed, take welfare, and vote.
- peterburkimsher 5y agoIt's a little more complicated than that: not all religious groups consider all forms of birth control to be sinful, and these trends don't apply in all countries. Increased religiosity won't necessarily increase the birth rate. Disclosure: my mum, Marion Burkimsher, is a demographic researcher specialising in this area. She's also studied fertility of migrants (the TFR statistics are skewed). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marion_Burkimsher/publication/338966806_Investigating_Family_Size_Differentials_by_Religiosity_Across_Europe_National_Contexts_Expectations_and_Outcomes/links/5ebbc512458515626ca5ae4f/Investigating-Family-Size-Differentials-by-Religiosity-Across-Europe-National-Contexts-Expectations-and-Outcomes.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marion_Burkimsher/publi...
- mensetmanusman 5y agohttps://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/07/why-people-with-no-religion-are-projected-to-decline-as-a-share-of-the-worlds-population/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/07/why-people-... People who identify as secular have about 1 fewer child per couple when compared to the same local averages.