Re: declining birthrates

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: All through the 60s to 90s women gained more : self-recognition and they fulfilled their quest for freedom as well as their needs to be more dependable on themselves and not as dependable on men. They extend their dependency by attaining highter education thus also delayed their maternal timeline. Unliked the baby boomer' parents who start their families very early, (some after graduating from high schools). Many baby boomer women went to colleges and obtained degrees and entered the workforce. Some would stop work after they had children but some went back to work after the children are grown. : With higher cost of living as well as health care and the needs to obtain a higher standard of living or HIGHER status in life. Many women nowaday need to keep up with raining families as well as making extra funds to help their families. : Declining birthrates is more eminent since there are more 2 children families nowaday. This is in line with the needs to keep family small and manageable. Family can no longer relies on the infrastructure of the old ways with family support systems. With most of the families now in mobility and living far apart. People have to work where they can find a job so they move far away from their original hometowns. : World population growth in other countries made up for the birthrates decline here in the USA. : India and China will be two of the most populous states in the world in the next few years. : By Jeri Maier : "Y6B" is a milestone in history for World Population. : In just 12 years, humans have increased their number by 1 billion. During the 20th century, the world's population has tripled. By 2100, ecologist David Pimentel of Cornell University warned in a recent paper, ''12 billion miserable humans will suffer a difficult life on Earth.'' : Of 370,000 children born this Tuesday Oct. 12, a majority of them will be poor. Half will be Asian and one of these chidlren will be the planet's 6 billionth person. : : http://www.un.org/popin/ : You can download the Highlight of 2002 World Population here: : http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2002/WPP2002-HIGHLIGHTSrev1.PDF : This is another reference: : One of the most pressing challenges humanity : faces is how to feed a rapidly growing world : population on a shrinking supply of farmland. : Global population could top 8 billion by 2030, : with most of that growth occurring in the : poorest areas of the developing world. The : United Nations estimates that 800 million : people worldwide, many of them children, : are already chronically malnourished. : http://boomersint.org/editorop.html

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