At present, only poor countries have reasonable fertility. Â The fertile age white population is everywhere declining, and the most intelligent and educated women reproduce the least. But quite recently affluent countries such as pre Weimar Germany had high fertility, and many poor countries have fertility as low as the worst of the west. Conversely, Rome in its decline, and Sparta in its decline, had terribly low fertility, though their …
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Dysgenic fertility
Chateau Heartiste, always a great source for the Dark Enlightenment, reports: Convicted criminal offenders had more children than individuals never convicted of a criminal offense. Criminal offenders also had more reproductive partners, were less often married, more likely to get remarried if ever married, and had more often contracted a sexually transmitted disease than non-offenders. Importantly, the increased reproductive success of criminals was explained by a fertility increase from having …
Raising fertility
Singapore has terminal fertility – a fertility rate so low that it is likely to end Singapore. Smart people go to Singapore, and just do not reproduce. Black hole dysgenesis. The Singaporean government has issued a bunch of laws and incentives intended to raise fertility, with rather small effect. Similarly, the emperor Augustus, noticing that Romans were on a similar path to oblivion, passed a bunch of laws to encourage …
Fertility
My unmarried niece failed to show up at my son’s wedding. I complained to her mother, observing that she has no life, so no excuse for not turning up. Her mother, who is my elder sister, was somewhat indignant about this and alleged that my niece had a boyfriend. I commented that since my niece was too old to be fertile, her boyfriend was not serious, unlikely to become a …
The collapse of fertility
Spandrel has a post wondering where all the babies went, and whenever I propose one of the usual suspects, for example no fault divorce, denormalization of masculinity, and such, he says “Ah, but many Muslim countries also have fertility collapseâ€. Good point. So let us look at a Muslim country with dramatic fertility collapse, and see if we can find any of the usual suspects.
Reproduction
Pretty soon, just as heterosexuals who are having fun are no longer “gayâ€, heterosexuals who have committed to permanently be together will no longer be “marriedâ€.