[narses]

Why religion mattares. At least Catholicism does. A nation that stops having babies, DIES.

[only1percent]

The Church doesn't seem to be doing much to encourage large families. In my parish of 500+ families, I can think of a handful of families with 4 kids, a couple dozen families with 3 kids, and 100+ families with 1 or 2 kids. Some of these are young families with room to grow, but most are as big as they'll get.

(Well, there's one guy with 6 kids -- but he's on his third family of two kids each... and he still takes Communion courtesy of TWO annulments.)