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be fruitful and multiply...some take it a little too serious.

Yes
Careers...are becoming priority
Financial consideration...Need to have $X in bank, retirement, home, etc before having kids (how much is enough?)
Inability to sacrifice...selfishness, it's about my needs...and/or I make plenty of sacrifices...I drive them all around town to play sports.



Yes...if they are raised/taught/encouraged to believe in themselves and work hard (by example). But for the most part, it's a generational thing...kids raising kids and not seeing it (hard work, sacrifice) themselves.


I don't have an opinion on the other stuff you mention...other than sex has become a favorite past-time of teens these days. Getting pregnant is just part of the fun...and you might get a shot at being on a reality, teen mom, show if you're lucky.

You covered a lot of it I believe. Raising children is a HUGE expenditure of time and resources. A lot of people are just deciding against it, probably because of the increase in things to do/ways of feeling self-fulfilled/new opportunities for women. It seems to be more prevalent as income goes up, so I'm not sure it's separated by race specifically. For example, the more modern Asian countries are also facing a shortage, in some cases worst than the West (which is helping drive the robotics industry there btw). The difference between white and other races might be correlation due to income disparities. Less money=less opportunity to do anything other than have children, combined with help from government programs that encourage child raising since we depend on an ever-increasing supply of workers to fund social security.

The income disparities might even be worsened by the decision of each camp to either have more kids or not, furthering the birth rate disparities.

EDIT: this is off the cuff thoughts on the matter; some of my info could definitely be wrong.

Not in agrarian societies where every available hand is needed for crops and care of young & elders.

Yes, I was thinking of Japan, Singapore, and China where affluent lifestyles & burgeoning middle classes plus Government enforcement dictates fewer progeny. But the less developed parts of Asia tend to have huge families & even export manpower such as the Philippines.


The irony is that India + China account for about 1/3 of the world's population and yet they have aggressive birth control.

Because they (whites) can't afford to have children. Just my opinion.

What percentage of the Indian and Chinese populations are Catholic?


I'm not just a homophobe and a racistphobe. I'm also a religiphobe.

Planned Parenthood is failing.

I blame supersperm and larger deeks

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57568695/teen-birth-rates-hit-historic-low-in-u.s/

The number of unplanned + planned pregnancies will never be lower than the number of planned pregnancies alone. Planned parenthood reduces the number of unplanned pregnancies/births. They don't really encourage general parenthood so much as they help prevent unplanned parenthood.

Gloria Steinem is a dumbazz - LGoPs

Very interesting post, sr.
The industrialized world tends to have better educated folks who put off having children until they are "ready". Then, they tend to have fewer kids- not enough to replace themselves. I've seen this pattern among friends of ALL races but they are predominantly white.

That being said, despite being the majority at the moment, there are not as many white births from "uneducated" folks as there are from the "uneducated" non-whites in the USA/Europe these days.

Poor Tyrone. Gifted in some areas. Short shrift in others.

Uh...yeah...I try not to even stop for gasoline when I'm near Georgetown.

The gorgeous women were safe there.

Poor people **** more

Uh, Bloody - you're scaring the homophobic members of the forum . . . .

Clearly Bloody Spaniard had immunity to the gay-homo virus.

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BS, the issue is that children in developed countries simply cost a lot of money and middle class families know that and do what they can to manage the size of their families. Now while middle class families "tend" to be predominantly white, they aren't always so. You mentioned a number of sub-classes like the poor whites, religious families, etc. who might have lots of children for other reasons but these are clearly in the minority from a US population perspective.

Other contributing factors are that poor people have limited access to birth control, plus as Jade Rose put it they have limited resources so presumably they entertain themselves by having sex more often (not statistically valid BTW but it makes sense). Historically speaking though, the poorer you are (regardless of race), the more children you have.

Just for the record, my IQ is 148, I have two kids, and my sperm count is JUST FINE!!!

How do we know that for sure? You could be a Croatian queer living with goats who keeps an Oxford educated Slovinian, english interpreter in a box under his bed.

That data is readily available from just about every developed country that collects it...I'm just too lazy to tabulate it!