To: neutrino
"If so many are starving, why does the population keep increasing? Ahh, but we aren't supposed to ask that, now, are we?"
My question too. I don't know about you but if I KNEW that if I had a child and that it would more than likely die of starvation or disease I wouldn't bring a child into the world. Maybe if they kept their population in check there'd be more food to go around.
To: Chi-Town Lady
The poorer a population, the more children they have. It's a natural mechanism to assure survival of the population. The more affluent the population, the fewer the children. This is a well known phenomenon in social studies and anthropology.
26 posted on
05/22/2003 2:35:05 PM PDT by
WVNan
To: Chi-Town Lady
"If so many are starving, why does the population keep increasing? Ahh, but we aren't supposed to ask that, now, are we?"
My question too. I don't know about you but if I KNEW that if I had a child and that it would more than likely die of starvation or disease I wouldn't bring a child into the world. Maybe if they kept their population in check there'd be more food to go around.
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On the contrary, you'd bring lots of children into the world, in the hopes that at least a couple would servive and provide for you in your "old age" (say, 43 or 44)
33 posted on
05/22/2003 10:08:53 PM PDT by
yankeedame
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