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What are the Fundamental Causes of a falling Birth Rate?

Is it the collapse of socially-conservative religions?Just a quick survey of the specialist literature on population dynamics suggests to me that, in addition to increasing wealth, the biggest causes of falling birth rates – no matter how religious a society is – are as follows:(1) women’s education and participation in the labour force, and(2) access to birth control.Both of these factors seem to overcome most conservative religious attitudes to high birth rates. What is more, even highly...

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