Gautam Mukunda wrote (about birth rates): > I think that probably has something to do with it. My > best guess, though, is that the main reason is that > the US is just so much wealthier than other countries, > even other industrialized countries. It's just > incredibly expensive to have kids in a modern > industrialized society. You can almost track > birthrates to how expensive it is - except in the US, > which has much less in the way of pro-family > government policies to subsidize the cost, yet it > still has a birthrate of about 2.0. My best guess is > that Americans are sufficiently wealthier than people > in other societies that they can afford to have more > kids. That's just a guess.
An easy test of this theory: Do rich Americans on average have more children than the "battlers"? I would be astounded. Regards, Ray. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
