SeaGypsy wrote:Obviously you have a pretty cloistered existence Desu.
Its very simple. In the developed world, the chances of a child dying are very small. We just don't expect that & when it happens it's a hell of a shock. In poor countries, infant & child mortality is far higher, to the point where most families expect to lose at least one child, often more. If you look back at infant & child mortality rates historically you will see there is a definite correllation between these numbers. Also where there is no such thing as a government safety net (social security) the only safety net is provided by the 'pay it forward, pay it back' system, which relies on having successful progeny to look after you when you are old. If the chances of this are improved by having more kids due to expected mortality, these folks will have more kids.
“MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”
― Christopher Hitchens
Poordogabone wrote:Access to education for women accounts in big parts for the disparity in birthrate between developed and developing nations.“MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”
― Christopher Hitchens
GHung wrote:*Economics (children are damned expensive)
*Access to family planning
*Women are more educated and career oriented
*Falling fertility rates (environment?)
*Decline of the nuclear family
*Adults have 'better things to do' than have children
*Awareness of over-population (and who would want to bring a child into this effed-up declining world?)
Not necessarily in that order
Poordogabone wrote:Access to education for women accounts in big parts for the disparity in birthrate between developed and developing nations.
DesuMaiden wrote:People in third world countries fail to realize that their children will not have a good chance to survive, so they give birth to more children than they can actually support. This true in most third world countries like Nigeria, Somalia, Uganda, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. They need family planning so that they don't give birth to more children than they can support.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
DesuMaiden wrote: But having more cars per capita doesn't necessarily led to greater happiness. So USA's citizens are not necessarily happier than Chinese citizens despite having greater accessibility to cars.
vtsnowedin wrote:It should be noted that the rate of population growth in many "Developing" nations is declining from where it once was. Birth rates are declining but death rates are also so it will take time for the pig to move through they python. Education is the most effective tool. My parents had High school educations. My four siblings have eight children between them. They have been well educated with three of them holding PhDs and counting. The eight cousins have just two children between them and those to the only ones not holding a BA or better as of yet.
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