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Some of the worst places to live in the world (Somalia, Sudan, Gaza, etc) also have the highest birth rates. I'm sure the lack of birth control contributes here
by Meekro 3y ago
Some of the worst places to live in the world (Somalia, Sudan, Gaza, etc) also have the highest birth rates. I'm sure the lack of birth control contributes here, but I still feel like we're missing a piece of the puzzle. In any case, "comfortable living space" is something only wealthy first-world couples think about before having children -- and those couples usually end up childless whether or not they have that space.
Fertility rates in most developed countries go down, not up, as couples get richer. Poor couples think they'd have more kids if only they had more money, a bigger house, access to good schools, etc. but the couples who have all that stuff are actually having fewer kids than anyone else.
- chaostheory 3y agoWe have more pieces of the puzzle now. The more industrialized a nation, the less the fertility. Even developing nations are no longer safe. Every area but central Africa is affected now that includes China and India. We are living in a slow and boring version of Children of Men, except it’s men who are infertile and not women
- red-iron-pine 3y agoThe more industrialized the nation the more women are able to control how many kids they have, and in many cases have to have fewer because they need to be able to work full time. This isn't "children of men", this is educated workers choosing to not have kids and instead have a higher standard of living.
- chaostheory 3y agoYour theory would work if this didn’t occur in paternalist societies in developing countries where the sexual revolution didn’t occur. Yet it’s still happening there. The root cause isn’t socioeconomic