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...
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.
I wonder why they dont discuss this in the change in in demographics.
Abortion is rare and the Catholic Church's influence is limited by the fact that liberation theology is so prevalent. You can, in most countries, walk in to any pharmacy and walk out with almost any birth control that you like. No government involvement needed or wanted. The ones that want many children have them, the ones that do not, do not.
Now you do have a number of girls with have out of wedlock babies but if they are in their teens the baby is raised by the grandparents.