What is causing the birth rate to drop? Poor people do not seem to have a problem having alot of kids.
I, and I think some others, associate it with general wealth and prosperity. Living in poverty you tend to rely more on the labor of many hands--your children--to get by. Prosperity brings leisure. As the rate of poverty continues to diminish, under liberal democracy and economic liberalism, so too does the need to reproduce diminish. --Very broad generalizations of course.
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