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Symmetrial's avatar

So we don’t have a cultural problem. Desires are where they should be. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

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Martin Greenwald, M.D.'s avatar

One fundamental fact in the fertility discussion is this: raising children is time-consuming, difficult, and expensive. If people generally don’t feel that it is truly necessary to have children, then they will generally have fewer. All the government subsidies and programs to increase the number of children, especially among the cognitive or social elite, will fail if the potential parents don’t have a felt need to have more children.

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