Go visit certain provinces in Afghanistan under Taliban control. No "empowered" women for you to worry about there.
Posted on 01/01/2012 1:00:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
BATAN, Brazil — Priscila da Silva once asked her grandmother why she had 12 children, and the answer was simple: “Because I wanted to.”
These days, Silva, like many women in Brazil and the rest of Latin America, has other plans. At 24, she thinks about having one child, if that.
“The situation today is different, and raising a child is difficult,” said Silva, slicing tomatoes at a restaurant that she founded with four other women, only one of whom has planned a family of any size. “This is another time, and it’s not the same.”
Fertility rates have dropped in many parts of the world in recent decades, but something particularly remarkable happened to the once-prolific family across Latin America. From sprawling Mexico to tiny Ecuador to economically buoyant Chile, fertility rates plummeted, even though abortion is illegal, the Catholic Church opposes birth control and government-run family planning is rare.
A frenzied migration to the cities, the expansion of the female workforce, better health care and the example of the small, affluent families portrayed on the region’s wildly popular soap operas have contributed to a demographic shift that happened so fast it caught social scientists by surprise.
In 1960, women in Latin America had almost six children on average. By 2010, the rate had fallen to 2.3 children.
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It’s a good thing Obama doesn’t like babies — otherwise, he’d probably spend a Brazilian dollars to fix this problem.
They can have our illegals.
women’s empowerment = national suicide
a.k.a. the "experts."
In my opinion the major reasons for family reduction in First World or industrialized countries is that their is so much more to do with the leisure time available that making babies and having a family are pretty far down the list of ‘Fun’ things to do.
That’s because their hot chicks keep leaving for America...
...And their hot chicks only want to PRACTICE making babies! Happy New year!
The richer the country the more each kid costs.
Yes and number of kids living on the streets and starving is about the same.
Does the Brazilian birth rate include all the Brazillegals in Framingham and Milford, Massachusetts? Those places are crawling with rugrats through 12 year olds who cannot speak anything but Portuguese...but who collect lavish Massachusetts welfare benefits and whose parents work only for cash under the table so as to avoid paying taxes.
This phenomenon has long been known in demographics. A nation will have a high birthrate, until it reaches and economic plateau unique to that nation, and then its birthrate will suddenly plummet to just stabilization, and average of 2.1 to 2.3 children per family.
Importantly, government cannot substantially increase this birthrate, but it, and the national culture, can lower it considerably more.
In countries with high birthrates, children are seen as retirement insurance for their parents in their old age.
Right now this is happening in many places in central and South America, as well as in much of the Muslim world.
The odd demographics right now are in India and China, where male gender preference in children is so pronounced that as many as 30 or more million more males have been born than females, causing a very dangerous imbalance.
Even in such populated countries, men who cannot marry and likely will never be employed, are not just a national burden, but a positive risk. And a potentially very destructive one.
Go visit certain provinces in Afghanistan under Taliban control. No "empowered" women for you to worry about there.
Overplayed "risk" scenario. For one thing, for "30 million" males to not have "potential mates," the underlying assumption of the rest living in perfect monogamous 1:1 pairings has to hold true. Even with some of the lowest divorce statistics in India, this assumption is simply not applicable: Enough males and females, over the course of their lifetime, have multiple sexual partners (mostly through remarriage, but also through adultery and other vices), to nullify that apparent deficiency. The scenario of 30 million sexually-starved males simply does not appear very real, when these facts are taken into consideration.
It'll be Greece3
They are even in developed countries, it just doesn't appear that way. However, instead of your own children taking care of you, in the developed world all young adults contribute to social security and pension plans, which are used by the elderly.
Brazil, and many other countries, immediately need to switch all of their pension and retirement plans to have the contributor recieve what they alone paid in, plus interest, dividends, and capital gains. Otherwise there will be too few young wage earners to be able to afford the elderly. Ponzi schemes will destroy Brazil.
I wonder why they dont discuss this in the change in in demographics.
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