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Many educated women just don't see the advantages of having children. Maybe if men stepped up it would be a different story.

Pick better mates. The real answer is men are tired of getting fleeced by courts in divorce and child support proceedings.

People here are talking about births as if they are a choice, which is a very first world thing to say. In most of the countries at the top of the list, women are married early and do not have access to birth control. There is no choice involved. The question is not why wealthy women have so few children -- it's why poor women have so many. And the answer is that they have no way to stop it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not white people. It's rich people- children are incredibly expensive in the rich world with a huge opportunity cost.

This. And rich women are sick of doing more with the kids than their rich husbands. We very deliberately stopped at 2 because DH was little help.

turkey is richer than many of its balkan neighbors yet has a markedly higher birth rate.

Maybe because Muslim women are discouraged from using birth control?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh yes, blame men. ::eyeroll:: I'm a woman and tired of hearing the men suck excuse for everything.

I agree. My husband is amazing and, if I'm being totally honest, a better parent than me.

You are in the very, very fortunate minority. Enjoy it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not white people. It's rich people- children are incredibly expensive in the rich world with a huge opportunity cost.

This. And rich women are sick of doing more with the kids than their rich husbands. We very deliberately stopped at 2 because DH was little help.

turkey is richer than many of its balkan neighbors yet has a markedly higher birth rate.

Anonymous wrote:Oh yes, blame men. ::eyeroll:: I'm a woman and tired of hearing the men suck excuse for everything.

I agree. My husband is amazing and, if I'm being totally honest, a better parent than me.

Anonymous wrote:Here is birth rate per 1000 people by country. Some of the lowest are Asian countries including Japan:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2054rank.html

It's interesting but also interesting is the momentum of the fertility drop in some countries where the current rate is technically still higher than in Singapore, Japan or Eastern Europe. Here is a piece on the dramatic changes in Brazil:


http://www.npr.org/2012/01/15/145133220/brazils-falling-birth-rate-a-new-way-of-thinking

Anonymous wrote:It's not white people. It's rich people- children are incredibly expensive in the rich world with a huge opportunity cost.

This. And rich women are sick of doing more with the kids than their rich husbands. We very deliberately stopped at 2 because DH was little help.

Anonymous wrote:Oh yes, blame men. ::eyeroll:: I'm a woman and tired of hearing the men suck excuse for everything.

Thems the facts, lady. Women do enormously more housework and childcare even when they have equally demanding jobs.

Oh yes, blame men. ::eyeroll:: I'm a woman and tired of hearing the men suck excuse for everything.

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Anonymous wrote:Because there are other opportunities now. Getting married and having children is one of many options.

Many educated women just don't see the advantages of having children. Maybe if men stepped up it would be a different story.

So true. And I am married to a good guy. But I know the statistics, I know the realities of how I can multitask so much better than him. Women end up bringing home the bacon and keeping the home fires.

Anonymous wrote:Because there are other opportunities now. Getting married and having children is one of many options.

Many educated women just don't see the advantages of having children. Maybe if men stepped up it would be a different story.

Furthermore, does this mean that darwin's theory of evolution does not apply to modern humans?

that is, if those humans that 'excel' in modern life, procreate at a much lower rate than humans that don't 'excel' at modern life - is the human race dysgenic?

The only thing you can really do for somebody is give them life... So white guys start shooting your stuff up in your ladies and white ladies push those kids out.

The world needs more whiteys... were the minority up in this planet.

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Anonymous wrote:Troll. Stop making suppositions about race. Actually read, learn about the world.

J[b]apan for example has a low birth rate:[/b]
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/04/07/editorials/battling-the-low-birthrate/

PP, you are not going to win argument by using Japanese example. Japanese are white wannabes.

Japan is also a 120+ million people packed into an archipelago.

Their tiny birth rate could be a natural reflection of lack of 'lebensraum' for a lack of a better term.