[lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

[Jim Devine]

On 5/8/06, Jenny Brown wrote:
>  If you don't have any guarantee your children
> will survive to adulthood, if you don't have a guaranteed pension, if you
> live in a situation (usually rural) where children contribute economically, then
> you are compelled or induced to have a large family for survival reasons...

in addition, the subordination of women is much worse in many
societies than in the US or  Europe. There, the men often get the
benefits of large families (a large number of sons) without suffering
the costs (death in childbirth, etc.), encouraging population growth.
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Jim Devine / "Sanity is a madness put to good use." -- George Santayana.