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Calling for Spanish policy makers to commit to providing greater support for families, the Institute for Family Policy (IFP) reported an alarming trend than one in four homes will be single-parent by 2011, Catholic News Agency (CNA) reports.

There used to be a day when families provided support by definition and now families are in need of help?

Gosh, what happened?

Don't tell me that political power grab agenda has anything to do with it for agenda is as pure as the falling rain....

"A vigorous social and political reaction is necessary that adopts important and lasting measures that truly support Spanish families to fulfill their role."

Individualism is lost...

None of this matters.

Spain is down to 1.29 children per woman per fertile lifetime - i.e Spain is just about halving in population every generation.

Very shortly it will cease to exist [as will all of the other nations in the right-hand column]:

   TOP 30 MEAN IQ    ***    BOTTOM 30 TOTAL FERTILITY RATE

                     ***

                     ***                        Estonia  1.41

107  Hong Kong       ***                        Croatia  1.41

106  South Korea     ***                  Guernsey (UK)  1.40

105  Japan           ***                        Germany  1.40

104  Taiwan (ROC)    ***                       Bulgaria  1.39

102  Austria         ***                         Russia  1.39

102  Germany         ***                        Romania  1.38

102  Italy           ***                        Austria  1.37

102  Netherlands     ***                         Greece  1.35

101  Sweden          ***                        Armenia  1.34

101  Switzerland     ***                     San Marino  1.34

100  Belgium         ***                        Hungary  1.33

100  China (PRC)     ***                       Slovakia  1.33

100  New Zealand     ***                        Andorra  1.31

100  Singapore       ***                          Italy  1.29

100  United Kingdom  ***                          SPAIN  1.29

99  Hungary         ***                    South Korea  1.28

99  Poland          ***                         Latvia  1.28

99  SPAIN           ***                         Poland  1.26

98  Denmark         ***                       Slovenia  1.26

98  France          ***                        Moldova  1.25

98  Norway          ***                        Ukraine  1.24

98  United States   ***         Bosnia and Herzegovina  1.23

97  Canada          ***                          Japan  1.23

97  Czech Republic  ***                        Belarus  1.22

97  Finland         ***                 Czech Republic  1.22

96  Australia       ***  Northern Mariana Islands (US)  1.21

96  Argentina       ***                      Lithuania  1.21

96  Russia          ***     Republic of China (Taiwan)  1.12

96  Slovakia        ***                      Singapore  1.07

96  Uruguay         ***                    Macau (PRC)  1.03

                     ***                Hong Kong (PRC)  0.98

SOURCE: IQ and the Wealth of Nations
SOURCE: List of countries and territories by fertility rate