While the global population is still growing, a major study from 2020 predicts it will peak in 2064 and then fall by nearly a billion people by the end of the century.
I've been doing genealogy research lately and families fromthe early 1900s and 1800s and before had like, on average, 7-9 children.
I don't think people overall were doing better then financially than they are now, that is, I don't know if number of children correlates to number of babies. A lot of people say that better finances leads to fewer babies per capita - but I have a feeling that's a classist trope.
Saying that, I do think that you're right and people aren't comfortable with having kids these days . But I do think a lot of it is to do with the impending doom of climate change.
The Bill Gates experiment with contraception in Africa more-or-less affirms this. He was dumping condoms out of airplanes to no effect. But then he incidentally started treating people in the communities where his staff worked for routine communicable diseases. The infant mortality rate plummeted and... before long, people who had 2-3 young healthy kids to look after started using contraception regularly.
Rather than putting up a big sign that reads "STOP FUCKING", you can just improve people's lives generally speaking and they'll curb their family sizes of their own accord.
I've been doing genealogy research lately and families fromthe early 1900s and 1800s and before had like, on average, 7-9 children.
I don't think people overall were doing better then financially than they are now, that is, I don't know if number of children correlates to number of babies. A lot of people say that better finances leads to fewer babies per capita - but I have a feeling that's a classist trope.
Saying that, I do think that you're right and people aren't comfortable with having kids these days . But I do think a lot of it is to do with the impending doom of climate change.
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Also you weren't necessarily expecting all those kids to live past infancy
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Women? In the workplace? Why are they not incubating the next generation of VOLKISH HEROES for the army?!
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The Bill Gates experiment with contraception in Africa more-or-less affirms this. He was dumping condoms out of airplanes to no effect. But then he incidentally started treating people in the communities where his staff worked for routine communicable diseases. The infant mortality rate plummeted and... before long, people who had 2-3 young healthy kids to look after started using contraception regularly.
Rather than putting up a big sign that reads "STOP FUCKING", you can just improve people's lives generally speaking and they'll curb their family sizes of their own accord.