onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
You should realize that there were Roman philosophers complaining about the same thing. It's commonly known that birth rates are highest in famine and war. The flip side is that they are lowest in affluence. Those that can financially afford the most children have the fewest. Ironic, no?The affluence->less kids thing is definitely a much more recent (like, 20th or maybe late 19th century) development.
J