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Originally posted by carnation
Russ, you need to qualify what you said the way Munchkin did--thanks, Munchkin!
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You want it qualified? Sure. First there was the Malthusian view on population. Then, before any of us were born, it was realized that in industrialized societies, the reverse was true. The less educated people are, the more children that they have. This is not an absolute correlation. There will be exceptions like you, but lets not kid ourselves into thinking that this is a loose correlation.
Malthus believed that
"the family size of the lower class ought to be regulated such that poor families do not produce more children than they can support."
I don't believe that. I believe that people should be educated so that they can choose an appropriate family size, which is what you, as an educated person, did.