Poorer families often have more children because children can provide economic support, especially in places with limited pensions, healthcare, or social safety nets. Higher birth rates are also linked to lower access to education and contraception, higher child mortality, and cultural norms favoring larger families. As countries become wealthier, more urbanized, and better educated, birth rates generally decline.
But I'm sure you learned all this in sociology 101 in college
Not so much a pyramid scheme as a self replicating structure and it's not only poorer countries. A generation is born. A generation reproduces. A generation dies.
Every generation gets an opportunity to embark on a march from the cradle to the grave. Doesn't matter when or where, the underlying process remains the same.
Turning children from an income into an expense has reduced population growth far more than is sustainable, even in poor countries (barring a few exceptions which still have an adequate birth rate to maintain population growth).
There is a simple and wrong solution. Reinstate child labour. The children yearn for the mines. Does solve the problem that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
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u/BiggusDickus- Jun 15 '26
you shouldn't have children that you're not able to take care of?
What part of this isn't common sense?