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"Ilfryn PRICE(SED)" wrote:
> Paul refering to Aaron writes
>
> >there is a third stance or perspective
> >
> >c)in which cultural instructions may be understood as influencing fertility
> >levels.
> >
> >Catholics do have more children than Protestants.
>
> Paul I share some scepticism about the validity of the third perspective but
> (according to quotes from Richard Rodgers - a British architect of some renown
> for non UK readers - at a recent lecture) Spain and Italy now have the two
> lowest birth rates in Europe.
It might interest you that Sweden has the HIGHEST birthrate in Europe! However,
the reasons for this are not sheer imitation, but a government policy that
successfully encouraged it. It was a policy that the population supported, so it
wasn't just a top down fiat, and the reasons the population supported was because
to few births creates economic crises.
France, however, has attempted for years to encourage high birth rates and have
failed. Russia had a pro-fertility policy for years, and I don't think that
succeeded either, but I am not sure of that.
>
>
> Assuming the statistic to be valid it seems to me more social imitation than
> any transmission of memes via birthrates (for a start it has taken less than a
> generation for the phenomenon to emerge
>
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