(April 9, 2020 at 4:44 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: People are actually practicing population control. For instance, average married woman in 17th century America gave birth to thirteen children.
And today it's rare that people have over three children, even over two is sometimes seen as weird, so people are doing something. But I do agree that conservatives are pretending like there is nothing happening and go batshit crazy when someone mentions "population control".
Reason why people are having less children is because people live longer and have more chances of surviving childhood. For instance, there is a data compiled in 1790 by Dr. Benjamin Rush, the prominent physician, that indicate how of a hundred people born in a given year in Philadelphia more than one-third died before the age of six and only one-quarter lived beyond the age of twenty-six.
In 1790, the world population was about one thousand million people. Having 2 or 3 children now strains resources far more the surviving 3 or 4 did in the 18th century.
Boru
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