[Enlightened1]

When we were a rural nation families needed to be larger.

This was because the the technology was not as great compared to today. Thus, not every family meme ER would make it.... Plus you needed more people to run the farm. You may lose some that leave the home too. That’s why you needed big families. We still see that in many rural societies today. In Western societies you don’t see that because of technology.

Although I believe generally speaking there is a correlation between morality and freedom. The lower the morality in a nation the less free society become. The higher the morality in a society the less crimes you see. The more free the people become.

[DiogenesLamp]

My concern is not so much that ours and Europe's and China's population has leveled off, it's that the parts of the world least able to take care of themselves are having massive numbers of children.

They are irresponsible, and a lot of wealthy people over here are helping to make the problem worse.