| ManusJustus said: The best way to control population is women's rights. Women who live in countries where they can have meaningful careers and opportunity tend not to have 5 or 6 children like many women in conservative countries. |
While I'm not against woman's rights.
I'd say that has less to do with woman's rights, and more to do with the fact that you don't need children to survive in modern countries. Which also happen to be the more liberal ones. in the countries where birthrates are high... it's because there are a lot of ways for your children to die... and you need the "free" labor to survive a lot of the time.
Afterall, Italy for example has an EXTREMELY low birthrate.
It also has such a bad situation with women that women are protesting the streets over the prime minister's massive sexism... and really, it's part of his popularity.
I mean, these two pictures I think tell a lot when you pay attention to which poorer nations have policies to curb population acting as an unacounted for variable. (Pasted only the links so as to not break the thread.)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Birth_rate_figures_for_countries.PNG/800px-Birth_rate_figures_for_countries.PNG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Gdp_per_capita_ppp_world_map_2005.PNG
I mean, consider Poland. Low birthrate... doesn't have the best women's rights record.
I mean, abortion is illegal in poland except rape, danger of the mother and deformation. It's not exactly "your wife can't leave the house without a bigass cloth over her face" but i'd say it's probably comperable to some of the more progressive third world nations.
