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[quote=Anonymous]This NY Times article has a good summary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html?pagewanted=all

I find demographics fascinating, and I have been researching trends for years.  The US is below replacement now.  Americans of European heritage have similar birth rates to European women--just over 1, well below replacement.

The constants in all far-below-replacement societies are as follows:  secularism, materialism, and economic anxiety.  Additional factors are late marriage and declining overall marriage rates;  high rates of cohabitation and divorce;  a complete separation of procreation from sex.

Certain societies have unique quirks.  Japan shows amazingly high rates of low sex drives.  Russia has unbelievably high rates of alcoholism, abortion, and suicide, and life expectancy is declining.  South Korea has an oppressive education system, so parents put all their effort into one child, if any.

Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict both talked extensively about Europe's declining population.  It all goes back to separating the procreative and unitive aspects of sex.[/quote]

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