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    10 hours ago

    Well yeah. You gotta raise pay and job security if you want people to get married and have kids. Pretty simple, right?

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      9 hours ago

      These things are negatively correlated with birth rates. The most strongly positively correlated are a misogynist, patriarchal culture, lack of access to family planning, and especially poverty.

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        5 hours ago

        This can’t be true, Africa is one of the most positive on all those features and it’s got a population boom going on, especially poverty, same in India

        access to family planning and contraception reduces family size

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          3 hours ago

          “Positively correlated” means that if something is increased, something else is also increased.

          Birth rates and poverty are positively correlated, meaning that higher birth rates and higher poverty tend to go together.

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        8 hours ago

        You say that but if I could have a afforded a house kids would have been on the table. I cant even consider children with no available stable grand parents and no way to afford a home and pay for babysitting at same time. Thanks to that, me or my SO have full time home maker and we can’t afford that currently. More Money or cheaper housing would solve my problem at least.

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          6 hours ago

          I say that because it’s true, and the USA has higher birth rates than most countries where your considerations are barely relevant at all. As it happens, the USA also has higher poverty rates, a more misogynist and patriarchal culture, and less access to family planning than these countries.