07-16-2013, 03:53 AM
Harbourmaster wrote:
Fact: People are living longer than ever before in the history of the world...
Untrue. The average age of people has not increased.
What is true is that a far greater percentage of the population survives long enough to have kids due to vaccines.
On the other side of the coin, those who do choose to have kids have far fewer children than they would have in the past due to economic concerns. In the modern world, a child is more of a financial liability than an asset. Why have 15 kids if you don't need them to work the fields?