http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_abo_percap-health-abortions-per-capita
Posted on 07/31/2007 3:48:24 AM PDT by monomaniac
someone should do a nice curve of standard/cost of living vs the birth rate
ex cost to raising a child in Japan all the way to college vs guyana for example
and then calculate the #of kids per capital
what yes it has been done to me it boils to cash allways
I think part of their problem may be that a whole bunch of their good looking women are here in New Hampshire working rather than back in Russia procreating.
Nashi? Isn’t that a Russian neo-Nazi cult?
"They [The pre-historic mammoths] became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia," said a Nashi organizer to a group of assembled campers.
Ah, the old 'Extinct Mammoth' angle. Yeah!
Doesn't work, kid. Ask my wife.
Nothing to do with sex at all. Russia has the highest abortion rates in the world.
There seems to be a sense of hopelessness that can only be cured by the Gospel of Christ. Russia is a revival waiting to happen- are her church leaders up to the task?
And here We were always told that they died off because of an ice age, not to mention overpopulation. After all, it takes 500 billion dinosaurs just to fill one Saudi oil field. It's no wonder there still aren't any plants in that sandbox.
I still can't figure out how they knew to die in large piles... Could it be they died HAVING sex? They all caught a deadly STD while participating in mass orgies.
Ruskie's had better be careful promoting immoral sexual activities, it may lead them to the same fate. See aids in Africa, where according to aids pandemic alarmists, 680 million Africans die of aids every ten years, which means Africa sure has a high birthrate....
True, and combined with the long standing influence of Humanism and Secularism, which although failed, has still left serious scars. Also a sense of trying to emulate the hedonistic lifestyles of the west.
Are their church leaders up to the task? Well there are very big evangelistic efforts going on in the ex warsaw pact countries and they are having some effect. The native (orthodox) church is fairly active - but doesn’t get on well with the missionaries.
Until the causes of that statistic change, Putin's program among the youth to encourage more births is likely only to increase the number of and % of pregnancies, not the number or % of births.
I’m surprised the Indian abortion rate is so low—with all those female fetuses they’re supposedly aborting.
That was my first thought as well.
There are lots of Russian women in NH working? I must have missed that.
New Russian pick up line....but we must for the sake of the Motherland!
While the horrendous practice of female abortion does happen, it is isolated to rural areas. Abortion is totally unacceptable in the mainstream culture and there is a huge societal taboo against it which has the good effect of severely reducing abortions.
The 2nd reason the number is low could be the reporting of data itself. In a country of 1.1 billion people, it is very difficult to collect and tabulate info like this accurately.
Quantitatively, the numbers are high in India. I think 20 million+ abortions over the past two decades. This figure has been arrived at, supposedly, by applying today’s rates over all those two decades. But in a population of over a billion, 20 million is a tiny percentage.
Contrast that with the situation in the US, which has about a fourth of India’s population, with 8 times the abortion rate as India.
Probably the OFFICIAL abortion rate is low.
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