Family size

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by marsupial

It's not just about money, it's about time. Once upon a time in agrarian societies families with lots of children were families with lots of farm workers. Life isn't like that anymore. Children are expected to spend all day in school and then come home to do homework. Add in an extracuricular activity or two and their day is full from morning to night. Parents are away from home and at work all day. They hardly have time to spend with the 1-3 kids they may have let alone think about adding 5 or 6 more to the brood.

so you would think that richer people would have more kids because they can afford to do more activities and pay for extra help.

But no, the inverse is true.

Richer people want LESS kids, despite having MORE to offer kids.

The future belongs to those that have children.