I think there's more going on with respect to the slow decline in population growth. Sure, the wealth a nation has the less it seems people have children but th

I think there's more going on with respect to the slow decline in population growth. Sure, the wealth a nation has the less it seems people have children but the why isn't always explored, it's just assumed people become more risk adverse or the wealth gap causes people to forego the thought of having a family. I think there's multiple problems at play here. First, you got people being generally more risk adverse which is just a normal thing. Second, the wealth gap is causing more and more folks to delay having a family for their later years. Third, I think some social pressures are just absent from the picture that was once the norm. I know that sounds cruel to pressure someone to have kids (I'm child-free and happy to be that way so I'm not hoping anyone to shame me into having a wife and kids) but I wonder if that even works whether it's positive depictions of young families or the old fashioned nagging of your parents to "settle down."