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Iamsemisweet -> America's fertility crisis (9/27/2011 11:25:21 AM)
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A couple of months ago in a thread, someone had the temerity to state that people should wait until they can afford it to have children. What an uproar that created among the usual suspects! In any case, turns out they may have been right. But in this article, they make the argument that there is an additional factor to consider. If professional women "should" have children, then we need to make it easier for them to do so.
http://www.slate.com/id/2304649/
Since the average American woman has 2.1 children, you might think we aren't experiencing a national fertility crisis. Unlike some European countries whose futures are threatened by low birth rates, Americans, on average, produce just the right number of future workers, soldiers, and taxpayers to keep our society humming. Our families are also, on average, comfortably smaller than those in some developing countries, where high birthrates help keep women and children severely impoverished. But here's the problem: Because the American fertility rate is an average, it obscures the fact that our country is actually more like two countries, which are now experiencing two different, serious crises.
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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