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Originally Posted by TalnSG
I still support ZPG (Zero Population Growth), just not through abstinence  or genocide  . |
Just have two kids then tie the parents' tubes? That could actually work...of course there'd still be a deficit due to accidental death, war, and murders...
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Originally Posted by godwine
MMM, is it true that aside from the cost, the younger generation (Early 30s and late 20s) were brought up to believe that its a burden and hassle to have a kid?
My cousin was suggesting that, he is now 42, my niece is 9 (I THINK:P), but he was telling me that a lot of people he worked with don't want to have kid, and its not the cost, but "Too much trouble", or "WHY"
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Nah, it's just modern civilization. People are more interested in the accumulation of money (even beyond reasonably spendable limits for some nebulous reason) than anything else, in general. Highly industrialized societies that don't require children to help out on the family farm have less reason to have high numbers of children. Gradually we have fewer and fewer until we hit a period of population decline. Part of it's lessened necessity (aside from the obvious continuation of the species), and part of it's just plain self-centered materialism.
at least that's how it is around here, lol