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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
Not so sure about that as a univeral truism even in this country. One of the big reasons anywhere in the world the poor have many children is because that's the only retire plan many impoverished people have. In addition, with child mortality rates higher they have to assume some of their children won't suvive to adulthood.
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That's true as well. But I was refering to here in the US specifically. We also have a high infant mortality rate for a Westernized country.
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