[lbo-talk] Declining Fertility Rates

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu, Thu Jan 27 11:01:00 PST 2005:
>No, that's my point: we don't need external incentives to 
>participate in family life, because it's intrinsically rewarding and 
>interesting. I think this spirit can be usefully applied in many 
>social contexts, not just in family relations.

Still and all, women everywhere are having fewer and fewer children. 
If having children is intrinsically interesting, women who have more 
resources have more children than women who have fewer resources, but 
that's not the case.  It's the other way around.  The more education 
women have, and the more public support (like state-funded child care 
and health care) they have, the fewer children they give birth to and 
raise.
-- 
Yoshie

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