How government destroys parenthood: Reuven Brenner

Learning from their whooping crane failure?

Birth rates in western countries have declined to far below replacement levels of 2.1. Why did these countries’ last few generations give up having kids?

Conventional reasons given are that people can now rely on insurance, pensions and promises of government programs of social security in their old age, and women have joined the labor force in increasing numbers. They need fewer kids to help them than agricultural societies once did, and still do in most of the world, where agriculture still employs at least 50% of the population.

Read full article: Asia Times, 29 March, 2016