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- From: jhhardy@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (J. Hardy)
- Subject: Re: Multiplying in the Backcountry (kids/population)
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- In <JEFFK.92Nov17103207@dosXX.med.utah.edu> jeffk@dosXX.med.utah.edu (Jeff Knell) writes:
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- > << ...discussion about having fewer children ...>>
-
- >< While I'll agree that the days of having 10 & 12 children are long gone,
- >< due to the fact that most of them will survive to adulthood and reproduce
- >< (no true that very long ago, in the whole scheme of things). I don't
- >< think that limiting people to one or even two children would be good
- >< in the US. If I'm not mistaken, the population of the US has been
- >< flat or declining slightly, if you exclude emigrants. ...
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >< Marc
-
- >I do not have the statistics in front of me,
- >buy it is my understanding that the population
- >of the US, while not growing at third world rates,
- >is again growing rapidly.
-
- >I believe that for a short time (70's ?) the
- >growth rate was near zero, but the mating
- >habits of the baby boomers have change that.
-
- >Anyone out there have the numbers?
-
- While I would be glad to hear that the population is declining, it wouldn't
- change my stance on having children. For my taste there are at least twice as
- many people as there ought to be. If the population is declining somewhat
- that's great. I'm still in favor of it declining even more rapidly.
-
- >jeff
-
- >feitctaj
-
- regards
-
- jim hardy
- jhhardy@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
-