Resource: Successful marriages and Families, Dollahite, Draper, Chapter 14, "Modern Fertility Patterns and God's Commandment to Multiply and Replenish the Earth," Hill, E. Jeffrey, et.al.
Quote by Professor Hawkey, FAM100 Strengthening Family
"It was very eye-opening for me to realize what the current trends are on this world and what the consequences are because of it. The fertility rate all around the world is declining for various reasons:
1) children cost money,
2) fear of overpopulation,
3) government pressure (China) and
4) choice/contraceptive use.
I have found that the choice of not having children is becoming more and more common around the world. I think that a large part of it is that America is becoming more individualistic. The world focuses on personal fulfillment, and the joy/pride of the individual. Due to those choices, we all could suffer the consequences of:
1) depopulation (when the fertility rate does not
replace the amount of deaths),
2) economic consequences (later age of retirement and no
children to replace the working population and less GDP), and
3) societal and political issues, such as mismatched ratio
of potential partners for marriage."
President Spencer W. Kimball said, "...you did not come to earth just to eat, drink, and be merry. You came knowing full well your responsibilities. You came to get for yourself a body that could be perfected, immortalized, and you understood that you were to act in partnership with God in providing bodies for other spirits equally anxious to come to this earth for righteous purposes, and so you will not postpone parenthood."
-- Professor Hawkey FAM100 Strengthening Family
Economic Reality Video: Demographic Winter
This video gives a different perspective about population growth.
We are living in a declining population world.
When someone asks why you have so many children, the answer is, "For Human Capital to Sustain Economic Growth."
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