[Jack Black]

Whether the ability to have kids extends to 35 or 50 is a moot point, because woman who haven't had kids by 35 are unlikely to have theem after that age. (Sure, there is the occassaional exception.)

The facts outlined above remain: most European nations are not reproducing themselves.

Pat Buchanan wrote an excellent book on this a decade ago:

. (Funny, he includes Japan in his category of "the West".)

[Tax-chick]

You’re right; I was making a peripheral point. I’ve noticed among my acquaintances, though, that women who marry later than average (late 30s) having been chaste up to that point are often surprised at how quickly and easily they conceive. (Not my cousin who was 57, though ;-).