it's mostly just economics. poor societies with short life expectancies have higher birth rates than wealthy urban societies with long life expectancies. The enormous investment in rearing of children makes sense given that labor is the key to survival. As societies begin to prosper, death rates fall faster than reproductive rates, leading to population boom. As societies continue to develop and industrialize, wealth accumulates and life spans increase = the investment of rearing of child no longer makes sense. birth rates fall. The research on such goes all the way back to Malthus (who made relevant observations and a mixed bag of conclusions). basically, it's a cycle.BearFan33 said:blame it on the plasticsRedbrickbear said:Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:Sorry for not being clear. Of course men and women are not the same. But i raised my daughter to believe she had the equal opportunity to make choices. She didnt have to be a homemaker or a housekeeper. but could be an doctor or a lawyer if she chose to be.Redbrickbear said:Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:
I always thought the "grrrrl power" movement was a way to teach our daughters that the were, in fact, equal to men. Girls didnt have to stay home and learn to pick up after others . They could do well in school and have choices. I always thought females had the better lot in life. They could choose to have a career, or get married and share the workload with a husband, if they could just stay home, run the house and take care of babies.
BTW, 3 kids, 7 gks. 2.3 ave. I still beat the 2.1 needed for growth
I think the alternative is to teach your daughter they arent worth as much 0r equal to your sons and to be subservient to men.
What did you teach yours?
Then it failed from the get go because it was based on utopian ideals.
Men and Women of course are not equal...even if we are just talking about physical strength and propensity for violence
[The only way to make men and women "equal" is to strip them of the unique qualities that make them men and women]
And good for you for being the 2.1 need for sustainability.
The point is that half the nations are earth are no longer beating or hitting that number and the rest are soon to follow.
And no one has found an answer to the problem....some still deny its even happening
Well interesting enough....no matter if women chose to be voluntary corporate workers or home makers....fertility keeps crashing
So it does not really matter.
Modern Western and East Asian nations with lots of opportunity for women to spend decades in formal education and working for corporations are seeing their fertility collapse.
And even developing countries that don't provided the same career/education centric approach for women are seeing their fertility crater.
Its wild to watch
No one seems able to escape the collapse
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/chemicals-in-plastic-electronics-are-lowering-fertility-in-men-and-women
https://www.salon.com/2021/04/04/plastic-pollution-infertility-extinction/
https://www.earthday.org/plastics-the-kingpin-of-the-fertility-crisis/
the only question is where on that cycle a society might be at any given time.