Posted on 03/22/2025 9:19:58 PM PDT by Red Badger
We don't win because we don't make war anymore. Lincoln made the same mistake until he told Sherman to make war.
It’s partly cultural. Children are still valued in their culture (not so much in Western culture these days).
Another reason: infant and child mortality is still much higher there than in developed countries, but thanks to do-gooders vaccinating children and providing medical care, they no longer lose more than half their children to disease before they reach school age. It’s still a thing to have plenty of kids, though, as it hasn’t really sunk in that most really will make it to adulthood.
Another: they don’t have nursing homes. Children care for their parents in old age.
Yet another: Access to birth control in a war torn country, and ability to afford it when and where available.
Most of the rest of the world has the opposite problem: birth rates way below replacement level. Humans can’t seem to do the happy medium.
Hilarious.
Absolutely ------g hilarious.
Xi is going to end up with the CCP's Belt-and-Road initiative around his neck; and in the next Chinese pogrom that's exactly what's going to happen.
I see what you did there :)
I want my Radio Télévision nationale congolaise :-P
Uncertainty during wars actually pushes people to procreate more.
also note that these number of children were the norm before modern medicine, but due to modern medicine, infant mortality rates have plummeted and it took every country some time to catch up with that fact.
LOL! 🎶
I think we have this bump as temporary - just as the sharp increase in population was due to advances in medicine.
Similarly the drop will even out I think but probably when the population is between 0.5 to 1 billion in the middle of the next century.
Unless we start expanding to Mars
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