Originally posted by Arrogathor:
Poor people have lots of children, people who are well off, prefer to play and enjoy themselves instead of having children. The cure for the population bomb is economic prosperity.
Far to many contentious issues in your above posting. Won't give readers the chance and time to reply in detail to any. Suggest you post an issue at a time like most of us?
I cant agree with your cure for the population bomb. There is no cure, or easy answer to the population explosion.....not in these 'modern times' anyway.
In Victorian times it was the poor that had huge familys.
Since the introduction of the Contraceptive pill, and Morning-After pill, its the rich who now have more children than the poor.
I agree with you that people today prefer to play travel and buy a home. But the rich plan and have their children later in life than the poor today,
Enabling them to travel, play, and get a roof over their heads. For the less well off, having one or two children proves be a financial burden.
The rich often have 2 or 3 children today.
I would suggest that its the rich COUNTRYS, with their improved medi-care, that have the most children on average. i.e. economic prosperity
tends to increase the population overall, not limit it.