> Starting from this distribution, what would happen if every woman had the same number of children as her mother? A woman with 1 child would have only one gran

> Starting from this distribution, what would happen if every woman had the same number of children as her mother? A woman with 1 child would have only one grandchild; a woman with 2 children would have 4 grandchildren; a woman with 3 children would have 9 grandchildren, and so on. In the next generation, there would be more big families and fewer small families. I don’t think this is correct, because not all children are female. Under this scenario a woman with one child would have either one or zero grandchildren, a women with 2 children would have 0, 2 or 4 grandchildren, etc. I guess the point the article is making (that the average number of kids needs to decrease to keep the population from exploding) still stands.