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To: wideawake

What do you mean by ‘aged out’? They do talk about there no long being a ‘Brain Drain’ of Indians and Chinese coming to the U.S. for tech jobs since most of those jobs are going there anyway. These demographics threads depress me like no others. For what it’s worth I believe Jews tend to have more kids than average.


47 posted on 05/09/2008 8:59:08 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
What do you mean by ‘aged out’?

When the average age of a woman across the population is older than the prime childbearing age (42-45).

They do talk about there no long being a ‘Brain Drain’ of Indians and Chinese coming to the U.S. for tech jobs since most of those jobs are going there anyway.

That's an exaggeration, but a popular one. US employers still keep pressing for more visas for such workers - they wouldn't spend money on those applications if they did not have willing applicants.

These demographics threads depress me like no others.

Not me. I'm doing my part - i.e. reproducing at an above average rate.

And the demographic shift is the most solvable problem possible: it can be reversed more or less the minute people decide to - it's not as if the average American cannot afford to have as many children as the average Pakistani. The means are ample - all it takes is will.

For what it’s worth I believe Jews tend to have more kids than average.

Largely because Orthodox women tend to have almost four times as many children as average.

One of the few examples in the world of a high-achievement demographic reproducing at well above replacement.

As usual, the Jews are a source of hope.

50 posted on 05/09/2008 10:57:03 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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