Already, the world has seen decreases in birth rates at industrialized countries. The countries that have higher birth rates are ones that are less industrialized. Even in the United States, people are experiencing the lowest birth rates the country has ever seen. A recent Time magazine issue goes over the "childless America" effect and interviewed couples who didn't want children. However, they reported that people spend over $1 billion dollars on baby items.
Considering China, even though the one-child policy has been in place since the '80s, the population growth will keep increasing until the last generation before the one-child policy fades. The newer generation will see a lot less people in time, but it'll take several years before that happens. Because of gendercide on girls and honor of having boys keep their last names (male preference), there are millions of men who probably won't have the opportunity to get married because of the huge shortage of women.
True, it is your choice of how many children you want and there are millions who would/do raise theirs wrongly, but I'm not here to preach. Just stating the facts.
Do you think people should stop having babies (for the time being)?
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Already, the world has seen decreases in birth rates at industrialized countries. The countries that have higher birth rates are ones that are less industrialized. Even in the United States, people are experiencing the lowest birth rates the country has ever seen. A recent Time magazine issue goes over the "childless America" effect and interviewed couples who didn't want children. However, they reported that people spend over $1 billion dollars on baby items.
Considering China, even though the one-child policy has been in place since the '80s, the population growth will keep increasing until the last generation before the one-child policy fades. The newer generation will see a lot less people in time, but it'll take several years before that happens. Because of gendercide on girls and honor of having boys keep their last names (male preference), there are millions of men who probably won't have the opportunity to get married because of the huge shortage of women.
True, it is your choice of how many children you want and there are millions who would/do raise theirs wrongly, but I'm not here to preach. Just stating the facts.