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The US: why is our birth rate so low? Also the US: ...
Interestingly it is still higher than a lot of European countries which have affordable healthcare
different causes: people are having less kids in the US because they're living in misery, whereas in europe we've long had fewer kids because better education and less need to have 8 kids so one of them survives and can take care of you as you get old.
Yeah in most European countries at least half the kids survived to adulthood now. So if you have four kids at least two of them will survive and that's all you need to pull the ox