Comments on: United States Total Fertility Rate Increases

By: Nicu

Nicu — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:48:01 +0000

Another reason my day is lost. Guys, please don’t post such information that is meant to depress people. I mean are you kidding me:”United States Total Fertility Rate Increases”. Who is interested in this? By increasing the population our wages become lower and more people will die from hunger. Now you realize how smart you are.
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By: Gwen

Gwen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:17:23 +0000

There are many, many unwanted children in the USA and an even higher percentage in the rest of the world, where in some areas, girl children are murdered at birth. I do not know what the LDS take on adoption is, but if it is favorable, please consider it.

We adopted a half American Korean girl when she was 3 months and she is the most darling child today, and very successful. At 28, she has just had her first, and she was a blessing.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:42:20 +0000

I agree with your summary. It seems the central bankers and powers to be have a population control agenda. Speaking of fertility - if anyone you know is having trouble with ovarian cysts, please check out the herbal treatment for ovarian cysts. I'm a firm believer that natural treatments are better than drugs and surgery.

By: rickety

rickety — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:19:52 +0000

Economic liberalization after being released from the shackles of Communism more than compensated for any loss of growth due to population declines. Also, since 2004, access to European Union structural funds have provided a major boost to the economy.

However, GDP per capita is still much below the EU average, and unemployment in 2010 was 11.8%, 2% above the EU average. Rising demands to fund health care, education, and the state pension system caused the public sector budget deficit to rise to 7.9% of GDP in 2010. 17% of the population is below the poverty line. (Source: CIA World Factbook)

I guess when you start from low down in the food chain, any sort of growth is impressive.

By: european

european — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:55:50 +0000

Hey you seem to forget one thing, economic growth and prosperity and population growth are NOT linked together. Look at eastern europe in the last decade, they have had a huge population decline, but rapid economic growth at the same time. Poland has a huge population decline currently but is the europea unions fastes growing economy. Historically after the black plague in the 14th century where aprox. 1/3-2/3 of european population died the economic situation for those left became better, and at the same time Europe entered the renisance.

By: Ieftin

Ieftin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:31:25 +0000

I think the most important factor for infertility is the smoking. Almost all women who are smokers, have infertility problems. However, the stress and the food full of chemicals can increase the infertility percent.

By: Joann

Joann — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:03:45 +0000

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By: rickety

rickety — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:30:24 +0000

From an economic point of view low fertility by itself is not necessarily a problem. What is the problem is the ratio of workers to retirees. Demographic momentum is carrying world population higher ( see http://www.rickety.us/2009/10/world-total-fertility-rate-declines/ ) even as the fertility rate has been declining for 60 years. Once the population peaks, demographic momentum will take the population lower at just a fast a pace, creating young-to-old ratios that will be seriously out of balance.

From a religious point of view, each child is precious, and is a gift from God. From scripture we learn that we are to multiply and replenish the earth ( Gen. 1:28 http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/1.28?lang=eng#27 )

A child is not another CO2 menace but God replenishing the earth. A child grows to be a productive adult that most probably will produce, create, and beautify people’s lives and benefit the world.

From a national point of view a child keeps alive the culture of a nation and is willing to fight to preserve what is right and good.

I have not read much about fertility but I have raised five children so I consider myself an expert on “over-population”. My expert view is it is not a problem once correct principles are embraced and one gets way from the propaganda machine.

By: David

David — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:13:52 +0000

On the off chance that this comment will get read so long after the article is published, I’m curious about the rationale of lower fertility rate being bad. I’m investigating overpopulation and trying to learn what I can about the state of the problem, what’s going on to fix it, etc. Hopefully someone will see this and comment back.